[iBook] iBook compressed files?

[Matthew Faulds]

Hi

We've got Tiger happily purring on a clamshell ibook. You'll probably want 
to get rid of stuff like extra localisations and fonts etc. iLife is the 
only other major app set really cos space is a little tight!

Matt



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Subject: Re: [iBook] iBook compressed files?
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 14:54:28 -0500

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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