Subject: Re: Files over 2Gb?
From: Russell Kerrison (russellk@bearcage.com.au)
Date: Wed Nov 01 2000 - 07:01:49 EST
As I mentioned in an earlier post, the machine is a new G4 with OS 9.0.4.
The local drives are formatted as HFS+ and happily handle reasonably big
files - the biggest so far being 15Gb.
Is it simply the case that the Appleshare file system is a bit dated and,
like HFS, can't recognise files greater than 2Gb?
Given the sort of work we're doing, this restriction could be extremely
irritating...
Russell.
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Heayn" <heayn@usc.edu>
To: <netatalk-admins@umich.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 5:31 PM
Subject: Re: Files over 2Gb?
> 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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