On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 21:26 +0000, James Wilkinson wrote: > It's not a bug in fdisk: it does exactly what it's supposed to do -- > handle MS-DOS style partition tables. It's those tables that can't > handle devices larger than 2 TB -- there just isn't enough space in > the fields. It's a harder limit than 640K was for real-mode DOS, or 2 > GB was for FAT16. Change the partition table format so it can handle > larger devices, and *it's not DOS partition table format any more*, > and operating systems that don't know about the new format can't use > the disk. At all. So would this limit only apply to your boot *disk*? (Disk, not partition.) If you had a separate drive, for the really big one, could your OS use something much larger than the BIOS knew what to do with? -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
