Files get bloated copying to 3400c

2006-01-31 Thread Matthew S. Carpenter
Hi, I'm not really sure which list this should go in. I have an odd problem with my PB 3400c. I currently have it runing OS 9.1 with an Orinoco wireless card.. .hard drive is 40GB, 144MB of RAM, VM is dissabled: I copy a folder that is just over 100MB from my G4 to the PB3400 over Apple

Re: Files get bloated copying to 3400c

2006-01-31 Thread Matthew S. Carpenter
Matthew S. Carpenter wrote: 906.9GB folder. Ahem, did I say 906.9GB? I meant 906.9MB. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! |

Re: Files get bloated copying to 3400c

2006-01-31 Thread Brian McEwen
The old non-HFS+ filesystem wastes a ton of space if you have a small file, the minimum block size is comparatively large on the old filesystem format. On Jan 31, 2006, at 5:11 AM, Matthew S. Carpenter wrote: copy a folder that is just over 100MB from my G4 to the PB3400 over Apple

Re: Files get bloated copying to 3400c

2006-01-31 Thread Brian McEwen
On Jan 31, 2006, at 10:03 AM, Matthew S. Carpenter wrote: Brian McEwen wrote: The old non-HFS+ filesystem wastes a ton of space if you have a small file, the minimum block size is comparatively large on the old filesystem format. Oh! I didn't reformat the drive when I upgraded the

Re: Files get bloated copying to 3400c

2006-01-31 Thread Dan K
Alsoft's PlusMakerĀ http://www.alsoft.com/PlusMaker/index.html Does work great though at $30-for-a-onetime-job it might make more sense for you to just wipe the drive and start over. dan k . http://macdan.n3.net/ carracho://dankephoto.dhs.org:9700