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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Adam Laurie <adam@algroup.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.2 disk sizes
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On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Adam Laurie wrote:

> Can you tell me what is the maximum allowable for the following:
> 
> 1. A physical hard disk (SCSI)

Whatever your hardware supports.

> 2. A single partition
> 3. A CCD

I believe the current limit is very, very large.  A CCD has been made that
was 4 terabytes (4,000 gigabytes) with some kernel modifications
necessary.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major