--- "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.
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