Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Jul 2003 19:08:04 +0200 | From | Andries Brouwer <> | Subject | Re: 2.5 'what to expect' |
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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
Yes, DOS partition table works up to 2^32 sectors, and with 2^9-byte sectors that is 2 TiB.
People are encountering that limit already. We need something better, either use some existing scheme, or invent something.
Andries
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