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From: Dickson@system-m.phx.bull.com (Paul Dickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Partition Size
Message-ID: <12219@baldrick.udel.EDU>
Date: 26 Feb 90 13:33:34 GMT
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 > I have a 40 Mb hard drive connected to a harddisk controller on the
 > bridgeboard side of my 2000.  I have it divided into 2 20Mb partitions.
 > One partition for the IBM side and one for the Amiga side.  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
 > partition.

If you use the Fast File System on the partition you are limited to
about 2 Gigabytes (some limit!  I wish I had a problem with it).  But if
you are going to use the Old File System, you are limited to partitions
less than 50 MB.

One advantage of partitioning up the drive is that if you have a system
crash while writing to the disk, you don't have to spend as much time
recovering from it.  But I've never had a problem (yet).

          -Paul Dickson

Dickson @ System-M.Phx.Bull.Com