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To: RJL who wrote (2471)	3/22/1999 9:06:00 PM
From: wily	Respond to of 110648

I think a good empirical test would be to take a collection of small files, say 1KByte each, and copy them into a FAT drive and a FAT 32 drive and compare the numbers. Working on it... wily

To: RJL who wrote (2471)	3/22/1999 10:02:00 PM
From: wily	Respond to of 110648

OK, here's the skinny, It's really what we've all been surmising (more or less): If I create a Notepad document containing one character and save it on my desktop and check its' properties, I see: Size: 1 bytes [1 bytes], 4,096 bytes used If I copy that file onto a FAT drive and check its' properties there, I see: Size: 1 bytes [1 bytes], 32,768 bytes used And, if I had been paying attention, I might not have had to ask all these silly questions, because if you "select all" the files and folders in a drive and click on properties, you see: Type: Multiple Types Location: All in G: Size: 751MB [787,692,487 bytes], 915,210,240 bytes used So, really, the answer is right there in the last line: 751MB is the total of the actual file sizes, while 915,210,240 bytes is the space used by them. I was ignoring the second (space used) number. I believe one wise man said "What I know is what I see" and another wise man said "What I see is what I know". And another said, "A man sees what he wants to see and disregards the rest". I say "whatever..." wily