Re: Largest HD on GS?

[ntt@cleese.apana.org.au (Jonathan Pratt)]

nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates) writes:
>
>    Theoretically, I think there's about a 4GB limit per drive partition, so
> you don't have to really worry about a 600MB drive at all, except for the
> following things. Here's a quick rundown on drives, formatting, and more:

Actually, the maximum size of any HFS partition is 2 GB ($7FFFFFFF) and it
does this by allocating several physical blocks (usually 512 bytes, but
can be larger on some devices (eg 1024 on a CD ROM)) to each logical
block.  That means that on a 1GB formatted drive, the smallest block that
the operating system sees is 16 Kb in size.  In other words, all of your
files will be multiples of 16 K in size, including the 200 byte text
files.  Not very impressive, but I s'pose that if you've got a drive that
big, you can afford to waste space liberally...

cheers
ntt@cleese