[Duo2400] Re: Hacks and success on this list

[Mark A. Kippert]

Larry Friedman on 1/12/03 11:46 PM wrote:

> 
> PS I just got done repartitioning my drive out as 4gigs for 7, 4 for 8
> and the rest for 9. Yeehaw, soon I'll have all my old software loaded
> on.
> 
Just curious. Did you format the partitions for OS 8 & 9 as Mac OS Extended
(HFS+) or Mac OS Standard (HFS). Obviously you had to do HFS for System 7.x
since it can't see HFS+.

Any volume larger than 1GIG benefits greatly from HFS+ formatting and if all
3 partitions are just HFS, that means you've lost about 25-30% of you hard
drives storage space due to the huge block sizes they to create.

That or when you are running in System 7.x you simply can't see the other
two partitions if you did format them as HFS+.

-Mark