On Die 16 Dez, Kaustav Bhattacharya wrote:
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> In message <34965F29.41C6@cpt.univ-mrs.fr>
>           Vincent PENNE <penne@cptsu5.univ-mrs.fr> wrote:
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> > I got the same problem with a hard disk of 3.1Gb. I'm afraid that
> > currently RiscBSD does not support too big hard disk (or maybe is it
> > RiscOS that does not support partitionning too big hard disk)

Tried the latest !HForm-Beta ?

> anything larger than 2Gb?   Having said that, I've been using a 6.3Gb
> SCSI hard disk under Risc OS 3.6 for 6 months without any trouble and
 ^^^^^
That's the reason. The troubble is only with ADFS-disks.

> now on 3.7 it still works fine, never lost anything, never had a disk
> crash, but of course the larger cluster sizes means I lose more disk
> space than I would if I had stuck to partitions smaller than 2Gb.

Depends on what your doing with the disk.
If it is your favourite News-disk under RISC-OS, with lots of articles
from lots of newsgroups, then I'd start thinking of re-partitioning it.
If it only holds large pictures and some DOS-HD-images, then it is OK

cheers,
Rainer
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