From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 21 10:33:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA05902 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 10:33:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA05897 for ; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 10:33:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA02456; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 10:22:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd002449; Thu Aug 21 17:22:31 1997 Message-ID: <33FC7953.41C67EA6@whistle.com> Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 10:22:27 -0700 From: Julian Elischer Organization: Whistle Communications X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Zoltan Sebestyen CC: FreeBSD questions mailinglist Subject: Re: size of disks References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Zoltan Sebestyen wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm planning to change a PC's OS from WinNT to FreeBSD, which is an > AppleTalk server. My question is that how big drives can the FreeBSD > handle(The drives in question are about 4G's each). > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Sebestyen Zoltan It all seems so stupid, > it makes me want to give up. > szoli@caesar.elte.hu But why should I give up, > when it all seems so stupid? some appletalk versions may have size limitations FreeBSD can handle very big partitions. BTW there is a bug in the appletalk code in FreeBSD in the case where you have a netrange, and the route to another network is on a different net number in your netrange than you are.. I'll be fixing it in the next few days..