[iBook] iBook compressed files?

[Mike Urseth]

That ain't gonna happen. I guess it took 2-3 hours just to copy the 
stuff over.

But your theory makes sense. He's the type of user that would have a 
lot of small files rather than a few big honking image files, etc.

He's really happy with the iBook performance now. Any chance that he 
can fit Panther or Tiger on there with room left for any meaningful 
applications?

Thanks for the input.

On Aug 1, 2005, at 2:40 PM, Larry Kollar wrote:

>
>> ... The nagging question is how did 40
>> gig fit into the 10 gig drive.
>
> Did everything fit back onto the 10GB drive afterwards? Drives can be 
> formatted with different sector sizes, which basically means the 
> smallest of files takes up some multiple of 1K bytes. Large sector 
> sizes are not uncommon on large drives, especially if they're 
> formatted for DOS/Doze use (which is how most external drives are set 
> up). Thus, the tiniest of files might take up 32K or more.
>
> If y'all have the time & patience, re-format the external drive as a 
> MacOS drive & try copying everything to it again. I'll bet you end up 
> with a much smaller usage.
>
> -- Larry
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