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FAT32 more efficient than HFS+?
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Jul 9, 2000, 06:50 AM
 
I have a USB ZIP 250, and the other day I formatted a fresh disk once in FAT32 and then HFS+. I found that when formatting in FAT32, only ~350k was used and ~238.6megs were available, but when I reformatted it in HFS+, ~3.8megs were used and strangely ~237.1megs were available. Why is this?
     
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Jul 9, 2000, 10:33 AM
 
Why would you format a volumn smaller that 1GB with a 32bit file system?
     
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Jul 9, 2000, 04:40 PM
 
And why does 1.5 MB really matter?
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