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Hi, Jonathan.
-=> Jonathan de Boyne Pollard spaketh unto Andrew Clegg <=-
SK>> HPFS takes up to much room you would loose a fair amount of space. It
SK>> seems when I compared a partition formatted with fat and one with
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SK>> HPFS I lost atleast a meg mabe more.
AC>> When there's nothing on it, maybe, but try putting lots of files on
AC>> there and see which takes up more space.
JdBP> On a floppy disc, the cluster size is 1 sector, so you don't see
JdBP> any gains in terms of allocation unit efficiency by switching to
JdBP> HPFS.
Don't always believe what the subject line says :-) We'd moved on to
talking about HDs.
Andrew.
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