WB 2.4 vs 8Gb CF...

[rkauer]

Good God!

 Never use an over-4Gb HD or CF with anything than OS3.5 onwards!

 Workbench 2.04 have the same support for large drives as Workbench 3.0/3.1: 4Gb with partitions not over 2Gb each.

 If you use anything over 4Gb the over-the-border partition will overlap and erase the first 4Gb (typically overwriting the HD/CF RDB).

[rkauer]

In fact, using a file system other than FFS will open some possibilities, but for FFS 2GiB is the absolute maximum for each partition.

 SFS (on machines with 020 or better CPU, freeware) or PFS (professional file system, COMMERCIAL) are some of a few candidates. FAT32 can be used but not to store Amiga files (only music, pictures and compressed archives), for example.