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Recover some hard drive space via pdisk
Authored by: rspress on May 29, '05 02:58:52PM

The original poster is incorrect, Apple disk utility is creating these "Apple Free" spaces for a reason. They are used for various purposes for the partition you just created. When you partition a disk under windows it will require you to save at least 8 MB per partition for that partitions use. It might be argued that 128MB per partition may be a little on the high side but since Apple sets this default value in Disk Utility I would feel safer leaving it alone.



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Recover some hard drive space via pdisk
Authored by: chucky23 on May 29, '05 07:15:43PM
"The original poster is incorrect, Apple disk utility is creating these "Apple Free" spaces for a reason. They are used for various purposes..."

Care to enlighten the discussion with what those "various purposes" might be? Or why you think getting rid of those spaces will be harmful?

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Recover some hard drive space via pdisk
Authored by: Shawn Parr on May 29, '05 11:00:18PM

Er, no.

The Windows partitioner (as of XP) will force you to save 8MB unallocated per disk, no matter how many partitions are desired.

8MB per physical disk, not 8MB per partition.

With Linux and/or Partition Magic you can create a partition setup without losing this 8MB.

I believe Microsoft is making space for an extended bootloader functionality that doesn't exist yet.



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Recover some hard drive space via pdisk
Authored by: jsuen on May 31, '05 01:32:22PM

The extra 8 MB are used if you convert the disk into a dynamic disk. This is exactly why you should leave Apple's extra space alone: for future use.



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