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RE: partition size
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pawan Singh)
Wed Nov 25 14:17:24 1998
From: Pawan Singh <psingh@turnstonesystems.com>
To: "'redhat-list@redhat.com'" <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 11:12:00 -0800
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While that is true, the filesystem itself needs some space to store
filenames, timestamps and what clusters make up a file. And that takes up
some space!
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Pawan Singh
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Email: psingh@turnstonesystems.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Parmer (jasonp) [mailto:jasonp@sequent.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 1998 11:05 AM
To: 'redhat-list@redhat.com'
Subject: RE: partition size
I'm thinking that the drive size discrepancy is coming from the fact that
drive manufacturers usually use 1000 for one k, and the rest of the world
usually uses 1024...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Clare Teoh [SMTP:clare@mail.tke.po.my]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 1998 2:58 AM
> To: redhat-list@redhat.com
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> Subject: Re: partition size
>
> 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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