Subject: Re: Files over 2Gb?
From: David Heayn (heayn@usc.edu)
Date: Wed Nov 01 2000 - 01:31:53 EST
It is my understanding that the 2 gig limit is more of a disk partitioning
problem, not a mac os one. If the disk is partitioned for Mac HFS then all
you get is 2 gigs to play with even if the disk is 100 gigs big. If you
reformat the drive making it an HFS+ disk there is practically no limit.
The catch is that if you want an HFS+ volume to be read by a pre-8.0 system
it's not going to happen, those machines don't knoe how to handle the data.
I had to do this when I got a 20 gig internal drive for DV work.
As far as reformating a netatalk drive for HFS+... well, I've never tried
it because I never had the need. Apple includes a utility called "drive
setup" which should be on your hard disk now.
P.S. I make no claim on how netatalk will handle this apparent file system
change up. But the worse that could happen is you'd have to restart
netatalk. Happy hacking.
--- DAVE
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