Re: Hard Drive Limitations

To: Gayle Lee Fairless <fairless@hiwaay.net>
Cc: Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com>, debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Hard Drive Limitations
From: Marco Paganini <paganini-debian-lists@paganini.net>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 15:34:53 -0400
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Hi Gayle,

> I did not run into the 128 GB limitation because I partitioned the drive 
> into 6 partitions, none bigger than 40 GB.  My smallest partition is 2 GB 
> as permitted by the Western Digital Data Lifeguard utility available off 
> their website.  I got it because I was aware of the 64 GB limitation on 
> fdisk in Windows 98SE.  My success is partly due to divine providence and 
> to some research.

I may be wrong, but IIRC, it's not a partition limitation, but rather the
geometry of the whole HD!

Regards,
Paga

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