Partitions > 2GB?

Partitions > 2GB?

[John L Grantham]

Hi all,

It at least _used_ to be so that the various PPC Linuxen couldn't handle 
partitions larger than 2 GB. Is that still the case as of LinuxPPC R4 and 
newer?

cya

John



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Re: Partitions > 2GB?

[Jens Ch. Restemeier]

Hi !

> It at least _used_ to be so that the various PPC Linuxen couldn't handle
> partitions larger than 2 GB. Is that still the case as of LinuxPPC R4 and
> newer?

I don't know where rumors like that come from... I'm running LinuxPPC on
a 5 GB partition of a 10 GB IBM harddisk...

Jens

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Re: Partitions > 2GB?

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Thu, 6 May 1999, Jens Ch. Restemeier wrote:
> > It at least _used_ to be so that the various PPC Linuxen couldn't handle
> > partitions larger than 2 GB. Is that still the case as of LinuxPPC R4 and
> > newer?
> 
> I don't know where rumors like that come from... I'm running LinuxPPC on
> a 5 GB partition of a 10 GB IBM harddisk...

Once upon a time, there was a bug in fdisk preventing it to work with disks
larger than 2 GiB on PPC.

Greetings,

						Geert

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Re: Partitions > 2GB?

[Philipp Tomsich]

On Thu, 6 May 1999, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

> Once upon a time, there was a bug in fdisk preventing it to work with disks
> larger than 2 GiB on PPC.

As far as I remember it, there also was a problem with the return value of
llseek in some versions of the glibc. As a consequence, mke2fs was unable
to make a filesystem larger than 2gbs.

--phil.

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Re: Partitions > 2GB?

[David A. Gatwood]

On Thu, 6 May 1999, Jens Ch. Restemeier wrote:

> 
> Hi !
> 
> > It at least _used_ to be so that the various PPC Linuxen couldn't handle
> > partitions larger than 2 GB. Is that still the case as of LinuxPPC R4 and
> > newer?
> 
> I don't know where rumors like that come from... I'm running LinuxPPC on
> a 5 GB partition of a 10 GB IBM harddisk...

Not just a rumor.  It was true at one time for LinuxPPC.  I _think_ it's
still the case under MkLinux, so keeping partitions under 2 gigs is a good
idea if you're planning on using both OSes.


Later,
David

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