Subject: Re: Max filesystem size
To: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@jocelyn.rhein.de>
From: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
List: current-users
Date: 07/23/1999 13:46:41
In message <19990723223501.A883@jocelyn.rhein.de>,
Ignatios Souvatzis writes
>On Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 10:53:25AM -0400, francus@metsny.yossi.com wrote:
>
>> What is the current maximum size for a filesystem on NetBSD1.4/pmax.
>> If I get a 4GB or 9GB disk can I create filesystems that are 4 or 9G?
>
[...]

>Thats 2048 GBytes, or 2199 Marketing-Gigabytes.


Yep. But if you also want to boot off these disks, you better create
a root partition that's within the first 1.2gig, so that the PROM
routines can read the kernel off the disk. 

If you are sure you dont want to boot off your 9gig or 18gig drive,
then you can happily newfs the 'c' partition.