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Fred Cisin wrote:
>>>> 3) What happens if you copy a -2G file to an otherwise almost full disk?
> 
> On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Brian L. Stuart wrote:
>> It gets you another 2 gig of space, of course.  This is the
>> little secret of drive manufacturers.  For the chip guys,
>> it's the magic smoke.  For the drive guys, they have the
>> fabulous increases in capacity by copying files of negative
>> size.  They just want us to think it's a lot of hard work
>> devising new ways of packing magnetic domains tighter.
>> (Just in case the tounge-in-cheek nature fails to get
>> throught:  :-)
> 
> But, what is the resistor color code for negative ohms?
> (Octarine?)

You read them RIGHT to LEFT. :)