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		mort96 on June 20, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: MacOS Caches Data from Encrypted Hard Drives Wow, that's 12.5% of the card, not 1%. I had no idea Finder's files would get that large.

chungy on June 20, 2018 [–]

A 1GB SD card is likely to be formatted with FAT16. Even a "one byte" file must take up 32KB in the file system because that's just how big the clusters will be.

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