Messages in this thread | | | From | (Miquel van Smoorenburg) | Subject | Re: hd size > bios support? | Date | 26 May 1999 12:09:06 +0200 |
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In article <cistron.Pine.LNX.4.10.9905231535510.31222-100000@ps.cus.umist.ac.uk>, Riley Williams <rhw@MemAlpha.CX> wrote: >Hi there. > > > Q> /dev/hda5 219 379 1293200 83 Linux native > > Q> /dev/hda6 380 623 1959898 83 Linux native > > > Note that the reason for splitting /dev/hda5 and /dev/hda6 into > > two partitions was to avoid problems connected with the 2G limit > > > 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.
Absolute nonsense. I have partitions >2GB on _all_ Linux machines here. And have had so for years. There are no known problems.
That being said, there has been a bug in early versions of libc6 and beta versions of e2fsck / e2mkfs concerning llseek(). But that has nothing to do with "Linux mangling partitions over 2GB in size".
Mike. -- Indifference will certainly be the downfall of mankind, but who cares?
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