[Discussion] Hard Drive Partition Sizes

[Thomas Clayton]

Thank You!

Tom C

--- On Sat, 3/13/10, 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: Saturday, March 13, 2010, 11:18 AM
> 
> 
> 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!
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> 
> >>   
> > 
> > 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
> 
> 
> 
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