> I think I formatted in the extended format vs. standard format for
> the partitions and usually select standard format.Could that make this kind
> of a result with 307, 614 K values being assigned to most
> small files under a MB? When I drag one of these bloated
> files to save to a floppy, the fie size is what appears to be
> reasonable file sizes.
You probably did the exact opposite - get info on the disks and see if
they are standard or extended. A standard HFS volume has only 65536 file
entries - so if you partitioned into two 20 GB HFS partitions that would
be about 320k per allocation block.
Double click on SimpleText and save the blank file to disk. Get Info. It
will say something similar to 307K on disk (332 bytes). That 332 byte
file takes up 314000 bytes because that is the smallest size file HFS
can save on that large of a volume.
As disks became larger and cheaper, Apple realized this, and introduced
HFS+ or extended format. This format allows a much smaller allocation
block size (and many more files), which saves large amounts of disk
space on larger volumes.
Solution: reinitialize partitions as extended format (BACKUP ALL DATA
FIRST) or repartition into several smaller standard format volumes
(BACKUP ALL DATA FIRST).
Tom
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