on 30/1/02 3:32 pm, Emile Schwarz at emile dot schwarz at wanadoo dot fr wrote:
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> What is the size of the two respective(s) hard disk ?
>
> Original application size: 1.4 MB. Hard drive size (in GB):
> Manipulated application size: 2 MB. Hard drive size (in GB):
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> Last: a one byte SimpleText file takes less than 1KB in a floppy disk (either
> 800 KB or 1.4 MB). If you copy that floppy... Err.
> that file to a 40 MB hard drive it will take more rooms in the hard drive. The
> used room increase "proportionally" to the hard disk
> drive !
That would true if you are still running with disks formatted as HFS. But in
most cases today there will be no difference (with HFS+ formatted drives).
It just depends on the block size which is normally 4K by default.
On an HFS+ drive the space occupied will be the same whether it's on a 4GB
or an 80GB drive, for example.
On floppy disks or 100MB Zip disks the minimum space occupied is less
because they format with a smaller block size (floppy 512 bytes, Zip 1.5K).
In any case a Get Info should always show the same actual byte count.
Kevin Rudman
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