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RE: partition size
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (UNIXMAN)
Wed Nov 25 13:21:06 1998
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 13:19:47 -0500 (EST)
From: UNIXMAN <jzygmont@alpha.confederationc.on.ca>
To: "Richardson,Anthony" <ARichard@stark.cc.oh.us>
Cc: redhat-list <redhat-list@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <199811251304.IAA26595@mail.redhat.com>
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well, for LBA mode to address it it would have to be no bigger than 8.4 GB
for EIDE. Actually does anyone know what they use for those 11 gig
drives?
On Wed, 25 Nov 1998, Richardson,Anthony wrote:
>
> 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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