>--- "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. ;-)
FAT32 still has a limit though. A 10gig partition will have smaller
blocks than a 30gig. Not so with HFS+. Everything over 2gig (iirc -
could be 0.5gig) has 4k. Presumably FAT32 has 2^32 clusters?
Aqua
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