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From: wayne@csri.toronto.edu (Wayne Hayes)
Subject: IBM: partition sizes restricted to 32Meg?
Message-ID: <1990Dec27.233659.5240@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Summary: Well then how come I have a 64Meg partition that works?
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
Date: 28 Dec 90 04:37:00 GMT
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A few days ago someone posted that they were having problems making
a partition larger than 32Megs on their hard disk.

Right now I'm running Evans' Minix-386 with 2 partitions: /dev/hd3 (64M)
and /dev/hd4 (20M).  I only had about 28M used on the 64M partition,
so I created a big tar archive and everything seemed to work fine.
dd read the entire 64M directly from /dev/hd3, and all the files
seemed to exist properly.

What Fdisk were you using?  If you were using the MS-DOS fdisk.com, then
you may have problems creating a partition over 32M.  In DOS, you should
use the fdisk.exe (there are two supplied with DOS 3.3 and 4.0 --
fdisk.com and fdisk.exe) to create big partitions.  However if you're
careful you can also use Minix's Fdisk to do it all for you (the Minix
one is, as usual, more versatile anyway.)

Note that when I was running 16-bit Minix, I only had the 20M partition,
so I don't know if running in 32 bit mode helps at all.

-- 
"Dad, what should I be when I grow up?"
"Honest." -- Robert M. Pirsig, _Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence_.

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