Peter, Brad,
On 2005 May 10 , at 21.03, Peter W. Draper wrote:
> this is a feature of HDS. The space taken by erased objects is not
> released until a new copy of the whole HDS file is made (otherwise each
> erase would have to be followed by a reorder of all the contents of the
> file). To "recover" the space you need to do an NDFCOPY.
It's a pity that files can't be made sparse. I took a quick look at
Google, and saw suggestions that this is possible on XP, and possible
on ext2fs if you unmount the filesystem first, but nothing actually
useful. Pity.
Norman
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