Fwd: Reducing disk usage?

[Alexander Sarras]

On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Steven White wrote:

> On Mon, 8 Mar 1999 13:57:28 -0800, Steven M. Scotten wrote:
>
> >>>>>> "Alexander" == Alexander Sarras <Alexander.Sarras@UNIVIE.AC.AT>
> >>>>>> writes:
> >
> >    Alexander> Use an Operating System, not a Game Console!
> >
> >    Alexander> Sorry, couldn't resist....
> >
> >I'm unclear about how using a non-MS OS will help you save disk space,
> >unless you're talking about FAT cluster size issues.
>
> I think that was what he was referring to.  The disk space used was greater
> than the combined file sizes.  FAT32 will relieve this to a degree, but
> OS/2's HPFS reduces this limitation to even much further.

Correct.

>
> >    Alexander> But if you really wan't do stay with M$, use something
> >    Alexander> like Doublespace, for an exclusice disk for your email.
> >
> >Better compression solution for Windows would be ZipMagic, which won't
> >require you to jeapordize your entire hard drive.
>
> At the expense of CPU time, but it will work.
>
DS was just an example, just anyhing which builds an entire filesystem in
one file will do.
(OTOH, I really like SMB suggestion ;->, but buying a 2nd box for that
might be slightly more expensive than adding a HD.)

SaS

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