Re: Another bug with HFS!

[dmiller@c4systm.com]

In article <5jdad5$q3n$1@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>,
ug0a@rzstud1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Alexander Siegfried) wrote:

> When you save a file onto a HFS partition, and the system
> crashes (for whatever reason) or you press reset, the file
> has not been saved properly (of course). While the data
> already occupies disk space, there is no file entry and so
> there is no way to get back the wasted capacity.

I don't think that's specific to HFS...  that's what the Disk Cache is for. 
It's also the stated reason you're supposed to use the Shut Down command
instead of just turning your computer off.  If you don't want to have that
problem, go into the graphical Memory control panel and set your disk cache
to 0K. (zero)
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