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Re: Bad Metric ... 1k = 1024 or 1000?
In article <B43F1FD1.1918%ab3189@wayne.edu>, "Charles A. Plater"
<ab3189@wayne.edu> wrote:
> in article
> jonINTERNETrelayCHAT-2810992003010001@nn-157-22-180-143.napanet.net, Jon
> Bettenct formerly Mr.I'mAnOutOfControlLisaSimpsonFannnn at
> jonINTERNETrelayCHAT@napaVALLEYnet.CLARInet wrote on 10/28/99 10:59 PM:
>
> > What gave me that impression was that the Get Info box said a 143360 byte
> > disk image was 143KB. Shortly after I posted that message, I started to
> > think that it just might be rounding it off to the nearest sector.
>
> Ok - 143 * 1024 = 146432. The reason the file is taking up more space on
> the disk is that the disk is formatted in 1k blocks (at least w/ HFS+, this
> is the smallest block size.) Therefore the file takes up some extra space on
> the HD.
Yes, that is the reason. However, my hard drive is formatted in 6.5K
blocks, which I find unnecessarily big (I have LOTS of files which are
shorter than even 1K.)
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