Shadow wrote:

I use TrueCrypt with 4482269 kilobytes, which is 4589843456
bytes, which is safe with even cheapo DVDs.
You get almost 60MB more than your way.
Not that 60MB matters much these days ....

Thank you Shadow for that additional empirically derived suggestion for the
optimal disc size of 4,48,2269 KB, as I'll take 60 free MB any day.

I hadn't fully tested how many MB work because 4700 MB does NOT work for
sure! So I only knew it was something between 4300 MB and 4700 MB that
would safely burn to DVD.

I just tried your helpful suggestion of 4,48,2269 KB in Veracrypt, with the
following results on the hard drive.


FAT32:
The disk drive shows up as a 4.26GB Removable Disk (Z where the
right-click properties on the 4.3GB drive show a capacity of 4,580,597,760
bytes.
http://wetakepic.com/images/2018/02/...drive_size.jpg

NTFS:
In a quick experiment, changing only the FAT32 to NTFS, the resulting size
shows up as a 4.27GB Removable Disk (Y where the right click properties
on the 4.3GB drive show a capacity of 4,587,454,464 bytes.
http://wetakepic.com/images/2018/02/..._size_ntfs.jpg

It's interesting that changing nothing but FAT32 to NTFS, we gain an
additional 6,856,704 bytes (7MB) for free.

Do you see any reason not to use these two settings moving forward for all?
1. 4482269 kilobytes
2. NTFS (versus FAT32)