[101214] in RedHat Linux List
RE: partition size
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richardson,Anthony)
Wed Nov 25 08:04:54 1998
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 20:02:00 -0500
From: "Richardson,Anthony" <ARichard@stark.cc.oh.us>
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Ramon Gandia wrote:
> Clare Teoh wrote:
> >
> > Does anybody know what is the maximum partition size for a
> > single partition that is supported in ext2 filesystem?
> > I use redhat 5.2 with kernel 2.0.36.
>
> No limit due to ext2. 8 GB if using IDE drives due to
> addressing limitations in IDE.
Is this true? I thought the 8 GB limitation was a BIOS limitation
that only affected DOS and Win9X machines. (It's not actually a
partition size limitation, but rather the BIOS is only capable of
accessing the first 8 GB of the drive, so all DOS partitions have
to fall under 8 GB. This limit applies to SCSI drives as well.)
Since linux doesn't use the BIOS to access the drive I was under the
impression that it wasn't subject to this 8 GB threshold. I don't
have access to a large enough drive to confirm this, but am curious.
Tony
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