Fresh Install of WB 3.1 on a new(ish) hard drive. Where to start?

[Franko]

If you know your never going to need to store single files of just a tad under 2GB in size then FFS is fine, if you want to store really big files bigger than 2GB then SFS is the best way to go as you can easily store a dual layer DVD ISO image file of over 8GB using SFS...

SFS is free and is much better than PFS in that you have no 4GB single file size barrier and also SFS can support HDs of up to 64TB in size (if you've got one that is...)

[Franko]

So...SFS supports big drives...but does the OS itself?

3.1 doesn't unless you use either SFS or PFS...

[Franko]

Allright.  So, IN THEORY, I can slap a 200G hard drive into a miggy, build a 2G workbench, and then however many 8G partitions until I hit the 200G wall?

Can't remember the HD size limit offhand for 3.1 without something like SFS or PFS...

but in practice you could do as you suggested with SFS or PFS, but why would you want to limit the partition sizes to 8GB

For example I have two 500GB HDs on my main A1200 the second drive the slave is partitioned into two 250GB partitions using SFS, the main drive is partitioned into 26 FFS partions of various sizes and the rest is split into various SFS partitions of up to 50GB in size...

[Franko]

Yikes!  After software update, I get a guru and a checksum error on workbench partition.

What are you doing, poking and fiddling around with to cause all these probs