HFS+ in Mac OS 7.6.1



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Marcus 2 MB Posts: 2	on: May 26, 2007, 11:57 Hi. I have a PowerBook 2400c with Mac OS 7.6.1. I've just installed a new 40 GB hard drive. Since HFS only support 65536 files, every file will be at least 600 kB. One solutions is to partition the drive into eight partitions at five GB each. Then every file would only need at least 75 kB. However, eight volumes on the desktop is a lot of volumes. My current solution is to use four partitions at ten GB each. But a more smooth solution would be to use one or two partitions. Is there any way to use something else besides HFS? Is it possible to use HFS plus or any other file system, perhaps with a 3rd party extension? Then I could use a 1 GB HFS partition for Mac OS 7.6.1 and a 39 GB partition for files and applications. Marcus

wove 1024 MB Posts: 1363	Reply #1 on: May 26, 2007, 14:07 Large drives are inefficient for storing small files with HFS and that is seen as a drawback to using 7.6 and earlier systems. Partitioning works around the problem but does tend to clutter the desktop. The wasted space is seen with lots of small files. Working with large graphics images, or video would use the space more efficiently. The easiest work around is to simply say that it really doesn't matter. Many files will not be using space very efficiently, yet the drive is huge and you are still going to have much more space than you do on a smaller drive for storage. Applications like email often create their own database file for message storage so the small individual messages are contained within a large file that efficiently uses space. One can create large disk images that will use the space efficiently on the large drive. They create their own virtual file system, which allow for the storage of small files within the image efficiently. While perhaps not handy for daily operation, they would work fine for storing items that are accessed less often. bill

wall 256 MB Posts: 343	Reply #2 on: May 26, 2007, 23:16 Quote from: "wove" One can create large disk images that will use the space efficiently on the large drive. They create their own virtual file system, which allow for the storage of small files within the image efficiently. While perhaps not handy for daily operation, they would work fine for storing items that are accessed less often.bill That's great, I never thought of that! Thanks! I don't really mind wasting space with HFS, but at the same time I do have a 160 GB usb HFS+ drive in 7.6.1, sort of... The drive's an external connected to a mac running 9.1. It's not something I've planned, but the drive's always visible(and usable) on the 7.6.1 macs' desktop through ethernet. Just like any other HD.

cballero 1024 MB Posts: 1176 System 7, today and forever	Reply #3 on: June 02, 2007, 04:28 How's that for similarities. On my G5, I installed and run Classic on an auto-mounting image!

Blessed Cheesemaker 8 MB Posts: 13	Reply #4 on: June 02, 2007, 14:30 Quote from: "wove" One can create large disk images that will use the space efficiently on the large drive. They create their own virtual file system, which allow for the storage of small files within the image efficiently. While perhaps not handy for daily operation, they would work fine for storing items that are accessed less often. bill I never thought of that (i.e., disk images). How would I do this? Use disk copy and create the images, I suppose...do I lose them when I shut down, or restart? Thanks, Chas

wove 1024 MB Posts: 1363	Reply #5 on: June 03, 2007, 14:33 Disk Copy is the software you use to create Disk Images and mount Disk Images. Disk Copy does not come with a built in feature to create self mounting images which will mount to the desktop when double clicked. The create self mounting disk images you can use Create SMI. Create SMI creates self mounting disk images from regular disk images created with Disk Copy 6.3. Images mounted on the desktop will unmount when the computer down and will need to be remounted when the computer starts up. In the case of self mounting images, they can be place in your start up items folder in your system folder and they will mount during startup and be ready to use as soon as the finder comes up. bill

phummers 8 MB Posts: 8	Reply #6 on: July 29, 2007, 18:02 Quote from: "Blessed Cheesemaker" I never thought of that (i.e., disk images). How would I do this? Use disk copy and create the images, I suppose...do I lose them when I shut down, or restart? They'll unmount when you shutdown, but everything will stay in them. When you reboot, if they (or aliases) are in the Startup Items folder, they'll mount automatically. Otherwise, double-click them when you want to mount them. \|=\|--o /Peter HUMMERS/

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