[Discussion] Hard Drive Partition Sizes

[Phil Parker]

On 03/01/2010 at 11:01 PM, Thomas Clayton <topcatdrc at yahoo.com> wrote: > 
>If you re-check my first letter, at the beginning of the quote from Jan van
>Wijk, he says
>"FS-size upto 2 terabyte (2048 GiB) by design"
>.
>While YOU may be correct, I think HE is saying 2 TB for a single file! 

No, he's saying the File System (FS) can cover 2 TiB by design. But recall
from another post that in practice the limit is 64 GiB for an HPFS file system
(partition), and that same compromise leads to the 2 GiB individual file size
limit.

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