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echo: os2prog
to: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
from: Andrew Clegg
date: 1995-03-06 04:46:34
subject: HPFS for floppy discs

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
                              ^^^^^^^^^
 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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