Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!leah!rpi!rpi.edu!shadow From: shadow@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: AmigaDos..... Message-ID: Date: 19 Mar 89 14:06:06 GMT References: <16013@cup.portal.com> Sender: usenet@rpi.edu Reply-To: shadow@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven Thomas Corzine) Distribution: na Organization: RPI Public Access Workstation Lab, Troy NY Lines: 22 In-reply-to: Doug_B_Erdely@cup.portal.com's message of 19 Mar 89 08:31:13 GMT In article <16013@cup.portal.com> Doug_B_Erdely@cup.portal.com writes: >Hi fellow Amiga users.... > I know that there is a limit to how large an AmigaDos partition can >be, but I can't remember what it was. Does anyone know what the MAX >size is for a partition? Somewhere around 50Meg? And does this max >size exist for both the old file system and the new file system? I am >formatting a new HD and would like the partitions to be as large as >can be. Thanks for any help! No idea offhand about the OFS, but 50 Meg sounds like a fair guess. Though it may be closer to 20 or 30 Meg. I don't really know. But for FFS, you have have pretty huge partitions. I think the limit is on the order of a gigabyte or a hundred gigabytes or some such. More than your drive is likely to have; try the entire drive as one partition. Deven -- ------- shadow@pawl.rpi.edu ------- Deven Thomas Corzine --------------------- Cogito shadow@acm.rpi.edu 2346 15th Street Pi-Rho America ergo userfxb6@rpitsmts.bitnet Troy, NY 12180-2306 (518) 272-5847 sum... In the immortal words of Socrates: "I drank what?" ...I think.