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SubjectRe: hd size > bios support?
Such problems only exist if you use severely outdated or broken
distributions. Linux has no problems with partitions >2G on my networks
using Debian 2.0/2.1 or Debian potato

On Sun, 23 May 1999, Riley Williams wrote:

> > Which 2 GB limit??
>
> On 32-bit architectures such as ix86 (the one in question), Linux has
> problems with files larger than 2G in size, and there have also been
> claims that some of the utilities used with Linux can and will mangle
> partitions over 2G in size on 32-bit architectures.

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