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>>>>> "Andries" == Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl> writes: Andries> On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 05:03:31PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: >> So, will the DOS partition make it up to 2TB? If so, then we won't >> have a problem until we have larger than 2TB drives Andries> Yes, DOS partition table works up to 2^32 sectors, and with Andries> 2^9-byte sectors that is 2 TiB. Andries> People are encountering that limit already. We need something Andries> better, either use some existing scheme, or invent something. We had this discussion before, back when I first submitted the large block device patches. The consensus then was to use EFI, or LDM. Unless the BIOS supports a partitioning scheme, you're not going to be able to boot anyway, or at least not without doing something clever. -- Dr Peter Chubb http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au peterc AT gelato.unsw.edu.au You are lost in a maze of BitKeeper repositories, all slightly different. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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