dougm@pnet51.cts.com (Doug Mcintyre) (05/11/89)
The question is why can't he squeeze everylast MB out of his
harddrive, not the the question on how big prodos lets volumes be. The
advanced disk utilities like to only format disks in round numbers, say he
formats it for 20M and has the rest of the disk reflect the totaly number of
blocks left on the drive, something like 23M for my hard drive, (but since I
use a CMS card, I can specify that..) but the advanced disk utilities would
only format the two partitions for 20M each, not taking advantage of the extra
3M of my hard drive. My suggestion to him was to try some shareware stuff that
does formats or prodos 8 programs or something, and if they don't want to do
that, to edit the directory of the second directory by hand to force it to
realize the true size of the disk. It can be done easily, but of course you
need all the reference stuff, and to calculate some extra block bit maps and
stuff like that. Easy to do..
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