Are empty files taking any space on the hard drive ?

Subject: Are empty files taking any space on the hard drive ?

Date: Tue Oct 30 23:13:38 2001
Posted by xak
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Area of science: Computer Science
ID: 1004501618.Cs

Message:


When I create an empty .txt file in Windows using Notepad and then open it's 
properties it says that the size of the empty .txt file is 0 bytes. How is this 
possible  when I've already saved the file and even though it's emtpy shouldn't 
it take some space on the hard drive ?

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