newsuser@LTH.Se (Lund Institute of Technology news server) (06/18/88)
I have just reformatted my HD (standard Apple internal HD40 in a MacII) with
Apple HD SC Setup V2.0. Below is what I found when I checked the partitions
(new feature in V2.0).
Title Partition Name Partition Type Size
----- -------------- -------------- ----
Partition Map Apple Apple_partition_map 31.5 K
MacDriver Macintosh Apple_Driver 16 K
HD [name of my HD] MacOS Apple_HFS 40,000 K
Free Space Extra Apple_Free 2,099 K
Apparently it allocated exactly 40,000 KB (39.06 MB) as the standard
partition. But, what about the "Free Space"? I don't like to have free
space that I can't use!
So, I decreased the "Free Space" partition to 99 K, and increased the "HD"
partition to 42,000 K. Everything seems to work as before, except that I
now have almost 2 MB more available than before.
Questions (to Apple or anybody else who has answers)
Why is there a "Free Space" partition?
Is it likely that I will run into problems because I changed the
partition sizes?
How does the Apple driver take care of bad blocks? If a bad block
is found, will the driver decrease the size of the Apple_HFS
partition, or will it use a block in the Extra partition?
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