Big partition problem (not 4Gb barrier!) with 50GB partitions...

[Jose]

Solved the previous HD size/parameter recognition problems by installing BB2, wich gave me around 111GB( strange as it's a 120 one), installed it, partitioned it, rebooted from emergency disk, reinstalled up to BB2 on 1st small 512MB partition and then started to format the other partitions, wich were organized like this:
512MB(for Amiga)/
1GB( for Debian;)/
1GB(.. Shapeshifter)/
1GB(other stuff)/
8GB(audio recordings/other data)/
50GB(Video/other data)/
50GB(video/other data 2)

Everything went well up till the 1st 50GB partition wich ended with (can't remember for sure) a "not a dos disk" message or something.
After rebooting I got the checkmark screen and after booting with the emergency disk the partitions were all gone :lol:

Is this a known problem ? Didn't find any big partion thread about it, they were all related to 4GB barrier.

:pint:

[Jose]

Hey :-)

Well, I used the format from BB2 without the quick option so it should be ok for BB2. But after the drive was partitioned (BB2) I had to reinstall 3.9 again and then BB1/BB2 since the partitioning obviously deleted previous partitions so maybe those steps messed it up, I can't think of anything else...
I'll try it again, maybe I messed up something...


[EDIT]

By the way, I only formated the big partitions on the 2nd BB2 install..

[Jose]

Got it! It was the block size as Thomas suggested. Raising from the 1024 default value to 4096 solved the problem:)

So there is a GB definition made for marketing purposes only ?  The {bleep}s :-x

BTW, why is it that format doesn't serve any purpose ?
Regarding the Debian/Mac partitions (I'll probably get the Mac one on a different HD as Framiga suggested, I've heard too many problems about it), is there a way to avoid showing them in Workbench as they'll be using a filesystem not accessible by AmigaOS and therefore not usable ?

[Jose]

Exactly what I wanted, thanks! Still too used to 3.1... 8-)