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wotevah	2010-08-04 , 01:07
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Originally Posted by droll

but the FAT32 argument may not be so valid with a file that is larger than 64k, would it? i would imagine the maximum wasted space would be 65535 bytes assuming you filled up the previous blocks and 1 byte overflowed into the next block. ????

You can waste up to 64k per file. Tile-based mapping appears to use many files, it probably stores each tile in a file.

Actual filesystem usage:
$ gdu -sch MyDocs/.maps/Open*
14M MyDocs/.maps/OpenCycleMap
62M MyDocs/.maps/OpenStreetMap I
8.4M MyDocs/.maps/OpenStreetMap II
84M total

Actual bytes stored:
$ gdu -scbh MyDocs/.maps/Open*
8.8M MyDocs/.maps/OpenCycleMap
19M MyDocs/.maps/OpenStreetMap I
3.7M MyDocs/.maps/OpenStreetMap II
32M total

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	ejasmudar	2010-09-24 , 04:10
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Is it possible to make an NTFS/EXT3 partition and store the Map tiles there? I have heard about something called loopback devie. Can somebody please explain or point me in the right direction?

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sup	2011-06-28 , 08:32
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Originally Posted by ejasmudar

Is it possible to make an NTFS/EXT3 partition and store the Map tiles there? I have heard about something called loopback devie. Can somebody please explain or point me in the right direction?

I wrote a guide for this, see here.