Maximum partition sizes 2Gb or 4Gb?

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Title: Maximum partition sizes 2Gb or 4Gb?
Post by: pentium on November 24, 2008, 03:26:02 PM
Quick question.
I'm all mixed up now and forget weather NeXTSTEP 3.3 allowed for maximum partition sizes of 2Gb or 4Gb.

Which was it?
Title: Re: Maximum partition sizes 2Gb or 4Gb?
Post by: ericj on November 24, 2008, 04:37:43 PM
Quote from: "pentium"Quick question.
I'm all mixed up now and forget weather NeXTSTEP 3.3 allowed for maximum partition sizes of 2Gb or 4Gb.

Which was it?

2 GB - OPENSTEP supports 4 GB.

Eric
Title: Maximum partition sizes 2Gb or 4Gb?
Post by: Morgon on November 24, 2008, 04:45:43 PM
I recommend 2 GB for system partition even under OpenStep as the OS printing system has a problem when the spool directories are on a 4GB partition (always says that disk is full and refuses to spool any more jobs).

Data partitions can be 4GB without problems tho when using OpenStep.

Morgon
Title: Maximum partition sizes 2Gb or 4Gb?
Post by: pentium on November 25, 2008, 12:25:27 AM
rats.  :(
Well thanks anyways. Looks like I might have to start make individual partitions and mounting them under the apps directory.
Title: Maximum partition sizes 2Gb or 4Gb?
Post by: helf on November 25, 2008, 11:44:33 AM
You can make them 8gb under openstep if you feel like playing russian roulette with your data :P
Title: Maximum partition sizes 2Gb or 4Gb?
Post by: pentium on January 22, 2009, 01:37:10 AM
Okay, NeXT (pun intended) problem.
I have a 2.1Gb hard drive here that I want to switch to however when it comes to formatting, because it's bigger than 2b the partitioner automatically gives me a 1Gb partition and leaves the rest alone. When I install, how do I manually tell the partitioner to do as much as it can and ignore the additional ~100Mb?
Title: Maximum partition sizes 2Gb or 4Gb?
Post by: mauve on January 22, 2009, 02:37:46 AM
Quote from: "pentium"Okay, NeXT (pun intended) problem.
I have a 2.1Gb hard drive here that I want to switch to however when it comes to formatting, because it's bigger than 2b the partitioner automatically gives me a 1Gb partition and leaves the rest alone. When I install, how do I manually tell the partitioner to do as much as it can and ignore the additional ~100Mb?

This rings a bell ; I had the same problem leaving the install process alone when I setup my sparc. I'd love to hear a solution too.
Title: Maximum partition sizes 2Gb or 4Gb?
Post by: emond on January 22, 2009, 03:42:52 AM
In one of my Cube under NeXT step 3.2... and have two hard drive on of 4,5 and 2,1 GB.

the 4,5 GB drive have 3 partitions 2x 2GB, 1x 500MB
the 2.1 GB drive have 2 partitions 1x 2GB, 1x ~100MB

But for its work... the fstab file is only hand make !

JB

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