Re: size of HFS partitions?

[nparker@cie-2.uoregon.edu (Neil Parker)]

In article <D84yK7.5J4@actrix.gen.nz> dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (David
Empson) writes:
>In article <5MAY199505194827@vax2.concordia.ca>,
>Mitchell Spector <spector@vax2.concordia.ca> wrote:
>> 
>> 	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.
>
>Probably due to the staggering lack of decent documentation on the
>file system.  I tried following the description in Inside Mac Volume
>4, but couldn't make sense of the B-tree structure (it didn't seem to
>agree with the manual).  Does anyone know of a well-written and
>correct description of the HFS file system structure?

Agreed--the description in Inside Mac V4 is so incomplete (and in some
editions, incorrect) that it's worse than useless.

However, the new Inside Mac manuals with the black covers are much better.
One of them contains a complete, understandable, and apparently accurate
description of the layout of an HFS volume.

I don't remember for sure which volume the description is in, but I think
it's in "Files."

               - Neil Parker
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