Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!amdcad!sun!imagen!atari!portal!cup.portal.com!Lou From: Lou@cup.portal.com (William Joseph Marriott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Stingy Internal SE Hard Drive Message-ID: <11991@cup.portal.com> Date: 1 Dec 88 22:08:55 GMT Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 34 Greetings. I've enjoyed using my Mac SE HD 20 for more than a year now. Unfortunately, I'm not enjoying having to maintain a library of floppies with all the files I need to keep handy but can't keep online, because of space limitations. Alhough I know the ultimate solution is to get more storage, perhaps someone can help me with an intermediary step. When I format my internal hard disk, I wind up with 19,200 K free -- a little more than a megabyte less than what I would expect from a 20Mb drive. The desktop file is only 7K in size... where is the rest of the space going? Is the Apple internal HD really a 19 Mb drive? Is there any way to format that drive to eek out a few more K of storage? Believe it or not, a little bit of room would make a lot of difference. Finally, when it comes time to buy a hard disk, it would be nice to know what size they are when they're formatted. I hear some 20 Mb drives actually format to a slightly higher storage level ... like 22 Mb. You're welcome to email or post your replies... But I prefer posting because it lets other people learn from you. It seems the people who insist you email replies never post summaries of the responses, so you're left hanging with a good question unresolved. Thanks. ______________________________________________________________________ _ Portal: william_joseph_marriott@cup.portal.com _ Bill Marriott Northwestern University: innen@nuacc.bitnet _ GEnie: W.MARRIOTT CI$: 72047,2770 ______________________________________________________________________