Chris Lambacher wrote: > The reason they are slow and tedious is that they need to write to > every byte on the disk. Depending on the size of the disk, there may > be a lot of data that needs to be written, and if they are older > computers, write speed may not be particularly fast.
OK, I accept that, but if you have a HDD that's 8GB total and it has 1GB of files, why must every byte be written to? Why not just overwrite the used portion? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
