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Re: Adjusting HFV sizes...?



alexlehm@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Alexander Lehmann) wrote:
>i9974319 (i9974319@unicorn.it.wsu.edu) wrote:

>I would guess that resizing a HFV file is about equivalent to changing the
>size of harddisk partition, which is difficult to impossible since it
>requires changing the sector allocation tables (FAT, BAM, whatever) and
>possibly moving all files to a different sector offset, if the tables require
>more space then before.

Actually there are a couple of utilities that can nondestructively
resize a FAT partition.  I'm familiar with the implementation of the
Mac filesystem though; it might be harder to do . . .



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