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Re: partition size
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Clare Teoh)
Wed Nov 25 14:03:07 1998
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 18:58:29 +0800
From: Clare Teoh <clare@mail.tke.po.my>
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When I used a 4.2gig UltraSCSI harddisk, after "mkfs /dev/sdc1" (the whole
partition, I only get about 3.9gig. Is this Normal?
I intend to use a 9.2gig UltraSCSI harddisk, so I guess there is no
limitations on the partition size?
thanks
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.
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