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Hello,

>> Errm, 32 Bits for partition size in sectors gives 2TB ( 4G * 0.5KB if
>> you use 512 byte sectors). Solaris had a limit of 2GB per file, but
>> since 2.5 or so there's a mount option to support big files.
>
> Heh, you are right. So was the previous post wrong, or is there really 
> a
> partition size limit caused by something different?
If there's a limit it's not 4GB:
~> uname -a
NetBSD Macallan 2.99.16 NetBSD 2.99.16 (MACALLAN) #620: Thu Feb 24 
14:15:39 EST 2005  
root@Macallan:/data/src/sys/arch/macppc/compile/MACALLAN macppc
~> df -h
Filesystem                             Size     Used     Avail Capacity 
  Mounted on
/dev/sd0a                              194M     149M       35M    80%   
  /
/dev/sd0g                              7.5G     3.5G      3.6G    49%   
  /usr
~> mount
/dev/sd0a on / type ffs (soft dependencies, NFS exported, local)
/dev/sd0g on /usr type ffs (soft dependencies, NFS exported, local)

>> have fun
>
> This was funny, indeed. But people dealing with mathematics aren't
> expected to know to compute, no?
Hmm, at the university they told me mathematics is the art of avoiding 
calculations.
So, mathematicians are supposed to know how to do it but not to do it ;)

have fun
Michael
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