Re: size of HFS partitions?

[paulk@microsoft.com (Paul Kearns)]

In article <5MAY199505194827@vax2.concordia.ca> spector@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector) writes:
>In article wily@svpal.svpal.org (Paul Creager) writes...
>>                               The main drawback is there are no GS 
>>utilities that can repair a HFS volume.  
>
>	I'm surprised _three years_ after introducing the HFS FST, no one 
>has even *attempted* to write utilities to touch HFS volumes on the IIgs.
>
>	What we desparately need is a simple program to optimize, undelete,
>repair and other basic functions with HFS. 

Actually, there has been at least one (short-lived) "attempt".  I started
thinking about something like this a while back, for the very reasons you
mention.  However, the only documentation I could find on HFS was in
/Inside Macintosh/ (or books that referenced it).

Unfortunately, the IM volumes expect you to call the toolbox for everything
and aren't as detailed as they could be.  They leave out bits and pieces
that aren't of interest to most Macintosh programmers.  This information is
available from Apple DTS, but apparently only to "partners"; an expense I
didn't feel was warranted for just tidbits about HFS.

A lot of the missing information could probably be determined empirically
or otherwise guessed at, but I figured my limited GS programming experience
and the potential for such a program to really screw things up didn't make
a good environment for guessing.  I'll have to leave it to someone who
knows what they're doing.

>Mitchell Spector

Paul Kearns
paulk@microsoft.com