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Re: Unlucky Installation



> Unfortunately, the Hurd filesystems (ffs and ext2fs) currently have an
> implementation limitation that makes them unable to handle disk partitions
> bigger than about 1GB.  (They map the entire disk partition into their
> memory, so it and everything else has to fit in the 2GB address space 
> user tasks get in Mach.)

Might this explain the problems I've been having with my linux partition?
It's bigger than 1GB :(

Matthew


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Selwyn College Computer Support
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