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Re: When is 6GB only 16mb. when its on a 1200
« on: July 01, 2005, 09:02:07 PM »
With Kickstart/OS 3.1 the ffs is only abel to write to 2GB Partitions and the OS itself is only able to address the first 4GB of a Harddisk. Even if you can install mount etc a bigger Partition or Harddisk as soon as you filled up the 4GB it will start at the first blocks of the Harddisk continuing writing and at that point you have OVERWRITTEN your RDB !!!

To go over the 2 and 4 GB barrier you have to install OS3.5 or OS3.9. But even with OS3.5/OS3.9 there is one restriction. The FIRST Partition may NOT be in any case bigger than 2GB (Because at startup there is only Kickstart 3.1 available, the rest will be loaded/patched when booting)

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