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From: steveb@cbmvax.commodore.com (Steve Beats)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Partition Size
Message-ID: <9782@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 22 Feb 90 13:52:06 GMT
References: <11655@baldrick.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: steveb@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (Steve Beats)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <11655@baldrick.udel.EDU> Hartupee.Pasa@xerox.com writes:
>I am about to add a Maxtor 190 MB drive to the other half of the disk
>controller. My question is, how big a partition can I have. Can I use the
>whole 190 MB on the Amiga, or am I limited to 32 MB like I am for an IBM PC

It depends which filing system you are using.  If you are using the old slow
filing system then the parition size limit is about 53Meg.  This is due to a
bug in that filing system.  If you are using FFS then the limit is 2.4 Gb, so
you can use the whole disk for Amiga without any problems.  Some of the very
early versions of FFS had a bug where any parition over 300Mb would validate
after each reset or power on.  I don`t think these versions are in circulation
anymore, but you won`t hit this problem with 190Mb anyway.


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