--- Marten van de Kraats <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ever heard of partitioning?
Yes. Did you read what I wrote?
> >
> >The only limit is due to the HFS disk format.
> >As you go to bigger drives they use bigger block
> >sizes. HFS is limited to 65,536 blocks per volume.
> >(Just like FAT16 on a PC is limited to 65,636
> >clusters.)
> >
> >You can partition really large drives to keep each
> >volume's block size down. 2 gig is really the
> largest
> >volume you want to use with HFS. Earlier versions
> >of HDSC will only let you make 1.9 or 2 gig
> volumes.
> >IIRC later versions allow bigger, but they waste
> >a lot of space unless you store only really large
> >files.
=====
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