MacOS size weirdness

[Juan Manuel Palacios]

On Saturday, July 13, 2002, at 08:23  PM, Shawn Dunn wrote:

> As I recall, you said you formatted HFS standard, using HFS on a drive
> bigger than 2gb is bad, and will cause all kinds of hell with filesize
> reporting, just an observation from experience...

	No problems whatsoever should arise from the use of an HFS 
filesystem on a partition larger than 2 gigs. The only thing that *will* 
happen is plain and simple waste of space. As Keary very well explained 
a larger HFS partition will have a larger block size, so a small file 
(say 1KB) will waste even more space as the partition size increases. 
That, apart from many other reasons, is why Apple dumped HFS in favor of 
HFS+

	And as a side comment to the original poster, regardless of your 
findings I would *STRONGLY* recommend, as a "Mac support guy", to run a 
disk utility when such strong discrepancies are found in sizes when 
reported from different sources. Most of the comments about the 
difference between file size and disk usage are pretty accurate, to say 
the least, but I still don't think the numbers will account for THAT 
difference when put together with the concepts explained.


	Regards,...


		Juan.

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