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Authored by: SOX on May 26, '04 11:39:19AM

If you use a sparse disk image it will inflate and deflate to use only as much of the key drive as needed for its contents. the remainder of the USB key drive is thiu available for use in communicating with PCs and other things that dont use HFS. So when you need to keep permissions and other info, you place it on the sparse image and when you dont care you place it outside the sparse.

perhaps an even better idea would be to format the sparse image as UFS so that way you could possibly use it with Linix machines that can mount spareimages and keep your permisions for them too.



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