MacOS size weirdness

[Bert Knabe]

They will have a different block size if they are HFS instead of HFS+. 
HFS+ uses a standard 4k block size, regardless of the partition size. 
HFS adjusts it's block size, using larger blocks on larger partitions. 
So a 1k file will show up as 4k on an HFS+ partition, but will show up 
as a different size on an HFS partition. How big it appears to be will 
depend on the size of the HFS partition.

Bert

On Saturday, July 13, 2002, at 07:16  PM, <astout2@swarthmore.edu> wrote:

> Peter Bagnall <pete@surfaceeffect.com> said:
>
>> The only think I can think of here is the block size.
>
> I wouldn't have expected a 1.0G partition and a 5.0G partition, both
> formatted in the same run with Apple's Disk Tools, on default settings,
> to have different block sizes.  Bad assumption?
>
> --A.
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