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Re: Bad Metric ... 1k = 1024 or 1000?
In article <381A37A2.96F45028@texas.net>, phoenyx <phoenyx@texas.net> wrote:
> "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.
Right. My hard drive is 400 MB and has only 1 partition. But I don't have
another drive big enough to contain all the data while I re-format it.
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