Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 25 May 1999 15:12:42 -0700 (PDT) | | From | Christoph Lameter <> | | Subject | Re: hd size > bios support? |
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Such problems only exist if you use severely outdated or broken distributions.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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