[Discussion] Hard Drive Partition Sizes

[Thomas Clayton]

Thank you _very_ much, Jim.

I did ask about pinball.sys a (short) while back - and it seems you remembered. :-) I had been interested in looking at some old HDDs (_much_ less than 8.4 GBs in size!) under Win (2K, XP) to see what, if anything, they had had on them.

The inquiry that got this thread going was related to 18GB SCSI U160s that didn't "function" (boot) immediately after installation of eCS. Now, I can be _really_ certain that I'm _not_ using _too_ big a HDD.

I suspect that its my ignorance of setting up part'n.s with LVM - oh, and  its working with bootmanager. I'll go back and _check it out_!  


Sincerely,

Thomas Clayton




--- On Fri, 3/5/10, Jim Hughes <4hughes at telus.net> wrote:

> From: Jim Hughes <4hughes at telus.net>
> Subject: Re: [Discussion] Hard Drive Partition Sizes
> To: "POSSI Discussion List" <discussion at lists.possi.org>
> Date: Friday, March 5, 2010, 9:15 AM
> 
> 
> On 2010_03_01 20:38, Thomas Clayton wrote:
> > Dear POSSI:
> >
> >
> > Anyone KNOW whether this Is still true?
> >
> > >From (2007),
> > "
> > On-disk filesystem structures
> >
> > Jan van Wijk 
> >
> > Filesystem on-disk structures for
> > FAT, HPFS, NTFS, JFS, EXT2 and ReiserFS
> > "
> > which says (p.13), about the HPFS,
> > "
> > FS-size upto 2 terabyte (2048 GiB) by design
> >
> > OS/2 implementation limit of 64 GiB
> >   due to shared cache design
> >  (5 bits of 32 for cache use)
> > "
> >
> > So, IF I read this correctly,
> >  my biggest HPFS partition can be 64GB in size?
> !
> >
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >
> > Thomas Clayton
> >
> > BTW, it does NOT matter WHAT size JFS partitions CAN
> BE, I'm asking about HPFS ones!
> > _______________________________________________
> >
> >   
> 
> Hi Thomas
> 
> One caveat (and possibly an aside) is;
> That, if you run Win 2k, XP,, etc. on the same machine and
> have 
> "pinball.sys" installed to give Windows access to HPFS
> partitions, the 
> largest HPFS partition can only be a maximum of 8 GB. This
> is from 
> various things I've read and experience with a variety of
> machines.
> 
> Regards,
> Jim
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