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  6. From: 71231.104@compuserve.com (Richard Slobod)
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  8. Subject: Re: Adjusting HFV sizes...?
  9. Date: Fri, 05 Apr 1996 23:11:38 GMT
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  21. alexlehm@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Alexander Lehmann) wrote:
  22. >i9974319 (i9974319@unicorn.it.wsu.edu) wrote:
  23.  
  24. >I would guess that resizing a HFV file is about equivalent to changing the
  25. >size of harddisk partition, which is difficult to impossible since it
  26. >requires changing the sector allocation tables (FAT, BAM, whatever) and
  27. >possibly moving all files to a different sector offset, if the tables require
  28. >more space then before.
  29.  
  30. Actually there are a couple of utilities that can nondestructively
  31. resize a FAT partition.  I'm familiar with the implementation of the
  32. Mac filesystem though; it might be harder to do . . .
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