[Discussion] Hard Drive Partition Sizes

[Jim Hughes]

On 2010_03_05 07:15, Jim Hughes wrote:
>
>
> 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!
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>
> 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
>

Thomas

An addendum to this:

ASAP after installing "pinball.sys" go into the windows "Recycle Bin" 
properties and on the "global page" set the switch to manage drives 
independently and then turn off the recycling for all HPFS partitions, 
otherwise you will be nagged to death to the effect that 
"/recycle/desktop.ini" is corrupt run chkdsk /f. When emptied, the 
Windows recycler (in its questionable wisdom) if managing things 
globally seems to try rewriting all the various "desktop,ini" files and 
has problems doing so uncorrupted on HPFS partitions. For me, this has 
been the case even if the deleted file(s) is from a NTFS partion and is 
the only content of the Recycle Bin.

Remembered, as I setup a new machine and again ran into this pita.

Regards
Jim