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Title: Hello My Sharks - Welcome To The Funeral!
Post by: CU_AMiGA on January 18, 2005, 10:07:42 AM

Hello

I want to know about something to do with SFS and partition limit (and i think i am going to be dreading the answer).

I am using SFS (the latest version from Aminet), and have 2 partitions:

Workbench 500MB
Entertainment 3.5gig

But i read somewhere that the maximum partition limit is 2gig? Does this also apply for SFS, and what trouble would lie ahead for me?!

Regards,

Title: Re: Hello My Sharks - Welcome To The Funeral!
Post by: doctorq on January 18, 2005, 10:18:52 AM

I don't think you have to worry. I have a 76 GB partition formatted with SFS, and I have never had problems with it. Most of my partitions is over 4 GB, so it works fine.

The guide says

 o The size of a file is limited to 2 GB (AmigaDOS)

 o Support for partitions larger than 4 GB or located (partially)
   beyond the 4 GB barrier on your drive.  There is support for the
   New Style Devices (NSD) and the 64-bit trackdisk commands (TD64)
   which support 64 bit access.

 o Supports large partitions. The limit is about 2 TB, but it can be
   more depending on the blocksize (32KB/Block -> 128 TB).

No need to worry indeed :-)

Title: Re: Hello My Sharks - Welcome To The Funeral!
Post by: PMC on January 18, 2005, 10:39:35 AM

Have also used SFS in the past and can confirm it supports partitions larger than 4Gb so you should be okay.

Title: Re: Hello My Sharks - Welcome To The Funeral!
Post by: CU_AMiGA on January 18, 2005, 12:25:35 PM

Well i am using the default IDE interface on the A1200. No PowerFlyer or buffered IDE Interfaces.

Regards,

Title: Re: Hello My Sharks - Welcome To The Funeral!
Post by: Framiga on January 18, 2005, 12:58:57 PM

check if you have the lastes at:

http://home.wtal.de/js/index.phtml

1.230 fixes some problems of 1.227.

SFS limit partition for NOT boot, is far to 4 GB ;-)

~124 GB or so (blocks of 512).

EDIT- just found a post of Jörg Strohmayer on the SFS ML:

> Did you test this. Does e.g. a 127GB partition not give you the same problems?

It's not related to LBA28, it's not a disk size but partition size limit, and it's not even 128 GB, it's 124.9 GB (with 512 bytes/block).

Title: Re: Hello My Sharks - Welcome To The Funeral!
Post by: CU_AMiGA on January 18, 2005, 01:01:56 PM

Quote

Framiga wrote:
check if you have the lastes at:

http://home.wtal.de/js/index.phtml

1.230 fixes some problems of 1.227.

SFS limit partition for NOT boot, is far to 4 GB ;-)

~124 GB or so (blocks of 1024 or 2048 bytes).

Hi

Many thanks. I think i have version 1.227. Would i just replace the 1.227 SMartFileSystem file with the 1.230 version (in L: i think).

Regards,

Title: Re: Hello My Sharks - Welcome To The Funeral!
Post by: Framiga on January 18, 2005, 01:08:21 PM

not only . . .

you have to load HDToolbox and do un Update filesystem and save.

EDIT- IMPORTANT

i have edited my previous post.

Use 512 as blocksize for the best performances