>--- "Andrew W. Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >--- "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?
>
>http://www.macworld.com/1998/04/secrets/4241.html
>(They're wrong about floppies having 65,536 blocks.)
>http://til.info.apple.com/techinfo.nsf/artnum/n24372
>http://www.healthtology.com/computerguys/FAQS/clustersize.htm
>
>Up to 4.92 billion blocks on an HFS+ formatted
>disk. Still don't know the maximum number for FAT32.
>Looks like when Apple decided to fix the limitations
>of HFS, they looked way into the future.
Sweet
I was wondering about that
I still say that since FAT16 had 2^16 blocks, FAT^32 probably has
2^32 blocks. Next time you reformat a drive take a look at the min
block size. Max Blast Plus gives you that info as you adjust
partitions, right?
Peace,
Aqua
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