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Article #172Re: Maximum HDD sizes?
From: Jason Haines
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 01:10
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In article <3A108F08.123C175B@chem.usyd.edu.au>, Technicians
<jeffa@chem.usyd.edu.au> wrote:
> It is my understanding that any size is possible under the older (pre OS 8)
> OS's as long as you partition the drive into 2GB partitions. Correct me if I'm
> wrong as I'm always willing to learn
Yes, I think that is true, but the allocation block size would be huge,
making minimum file sizes large and wasting good disk space.
HFS+ is the way to go.
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Subject: Re: Maximum HDD sizes?
From: Jason Haines <matreya@remove_mac.com>
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