Re: Partitions

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

krisp writes ...
> 
> First off, is there no way to have volumes over 65535 blocks (32 meg) in
> GSOS? I've heard you can't in prodos but maybe 
> with a different filesystem i could.

     32MB is the current limit with ProDOS. You can format part of a drive in
ProDOS (maybe 3-4 volumes) and the rest as a single HFS volume. Supertimer
frequently recommends the 'big HFS volume' approach.



> Also, is there any way to add more 
> partitions to a hd with out losing
> data?

     There is almost certainly a way. For instance, a utility for a tape
backup system might automatically move stuff to tape, partition the disk, and
offer options for moving stuff back. I do not recall any utils which try to
preserve data on a disk while partitioning it; maybe someone else knows of
one.



> I have a 120 meg drive but only
> the first 32meg is mapped, although i
> think it is one large partition, but I don't recall how i set it up the
> first time.
 ....

     Probably, you had it formatted with one ProDOS partition and the rest in
HFS. This would make sense under older versions of GS System which greatly
limited the number of volumes you could mount. A 120MB drive would work fine
as four ProDOS volumes or two ProDOS volumes and a single larger HFS volume.



Rubywand