Re: Bad Metric ... 1k = 1024 or 1000?

[phoenyx <phoenyx@texas.net>]

"Jon Bettenct (formerly Mr.I'mAnOutOfControlLisaSimpsonFannnn)" wrote:

> Yes, that is the reason. However, my hard drive is formatted in 6.5K
> blocks, which I find unnecessarily big (I have LOTS of files which are
> shorter than even 1K.)
>

    A while back I had posted on this aspect of HFS.
The block size is based upon the partition size. To
get a more efficient block size you will have to repartition
the device with several smaller partitions. I don't have
my calculations handy (or the old post) but keep them
about  200-300 meg each.

    On my KEGS/Linux system I have a HFS partition
setup as 128k which works well. Block size is 1k. For
512k (same as 3.5" HFS floppy) you have to keep the
partition under 96 megs.

Phoenyx