----- Original Message ----- From: "Entwicklung" Entwicklung@WHengenIBK.de To: "Biswaroop(External)" biswaroopb@integramicro.com Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 9:37 AM Subject: Re: [hfs-user] (no subject)

Hi Biswaroop, It's (2^16 -1)*(2^32 - 1) - since in a

2s-complement

representation n-bytes(unsigned) can store a maximum positive value of (2^n - 1). This is also why the maximum no. of allocation blocks is 65535 and not 65536(2^16) since otherwise it would result in an overflow. Signed integers - SInt8 for eg. can hold values ranging from -128 (-2^(n-1)) to

+127

(2^(n-1) - 1).

Hope this helps !

Regards, Nandini

----- Original Message ----- From: "Biswaroop(External)" biswaroopb@integramicro.com To: hfs-user@lists.mars.org Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 8:53 AM Subject: [hfs-user] (no subject)

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Hi all,

I am just wondering about the Max Volume size for a HFS volume. Theretically it should be.. 2^16 * 2^32(it is a multiple of 512)= 2^48 2^30 = 1GB Therefore 2^18 GB is the maximum.(Isn't it??)

regards Biswaroop

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