--- "Andrew W. Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just finished installing everything on this new
> 30gig hard disk,
> when I looked at the size of an extension I was
> emailing to someone
> and found it was 448k for 7,967 bytes used.
> Obviously, this didn't
> seem right, so I got info on the hard disk.
>
> Guess who formatted a 30GB hard disk in MacOS
> Standard Format....
LOL! HFS can really stretch those 65,536 clusters. :)
(At least Microsoft sensibly put a 2gig limit on
FAT16 so nobody would end up with 448K clusters.)
HFS+ and FAT32 don't have the 65,536 block/cluster
limit. ;-)
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