Other ways to Format Disks

[RGrphc2]

Are there other ways to format external disks on the mac other than Disk Utility??? When i use that to format a ZIP or flash disk i lose space on the disk 112MB formated on the Mac, 124 formated on the PC. Any help on how to format it so i can get the extra 12MB back?

 

[ElDiabloConCaca]

It's probably due to the format differences between the machines. On the PC, you're formatting as FAT32 or HTFS, and on the Mac, you're formatting as HSF+ Journaled/Unjournaled or UFS. Each different format takes up different amounts of space on the hard drive. HFS+ (the default Macintosh format) may take about 16Mb on a 128MB drive, where FAT32 or NTFS (the default Windows formats) may take only 4MB.

OS X can read and write to FAT32-formatted disks, so you may want to settle on that format for cross-platform compatibility.

 

[RGrphc2]

Okay cool thanks, that's what i've figured...looks like my PC is coming with me when i move out, and when i eventually get a G5

 

[chabig]

Couldn't it also simply be that the two systems are reporting the space differently?