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Re: Size Limit
In article <26o44m$j9a@hub.ucsb.edu>,
Eric D. Shepherd <uerics@mcl.ucsb.edu> wrote:
>No patch. The 32Mb partition limit under ProDOS is because a 16-bit
>number is used to represent the block count on a disk, so:
>65,536 blocks * 512 bytes/block = 32 Mb.
And of course the only reason HFS can use bigger volumes is because
it uses a bigger allocation block size, so your minimum file size is
larger. (For a 4 gig drive I presume the minimum file size would be 62.5K?
I used the rough (4000000000/32000000)*.5K..)
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- References:
- Size Limit
- From: jthielen@vnet.IBM.COM (James A. Thielen - Schaumburg, Il.)
- Re: Size Limit
- From: uerics@mcl.ucsb.edu (Eric D. Shepherd)