Re: HFS Backup-RESTORE Review, and Apple HD20 \"Missing Space\"...

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From: James Clausing
Date: Sun, 06 Jul 1986 15:53

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In article <4044@decwrl.DEC.COM> harrow@exodus.dec.com (Jeff Harrow, NCSE LKG1-3/F16 DTN=226-7445) writes:
>Well, I finally got brave and restored my Apple HD20 from a full backup
>using HFS Backup from PCPC (1-800-MACBUTT).
(some stuff deleted here)
>
>Now, what happend to my disk space?  Check this out:
>
>                                     PRIOR TO BACKUP           AFTER RESTORE
>
>In Disk                            15,748K                          14,813K
>Available                           3,272K                           4,207K
>                                   ----------------------------------------
>Total                              19,030K                          19,050K
>
>Difference from 
>expected 20MB                         980K                             950K
>
If the disk holds 20,000,000 bytes that is not 20,000K that is only 19,531K
now that Apple like everyone else in computer science remembers that K=1024
bytes.  That doesn't explain the other 360K missing (from the 19171 given as
available after re-initialization) though.  Curious.


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Subject: Re: HFS Backup-RESTORE Review, and Apple HD20 \"Missing Space\"...
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