On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 01:25:00AM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Chris Tillman wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 04:28:49PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > my partition on my tibook disk:
> > >
> > > /dev/hda
> > > # type name length base
> > > ( size ) system
> > > dump: name /dev/hda len 8
> > > /dev/hda1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1
> > > ( 31.5k) Partition map
> > > /dev/hda2 Apple_Bootstrap bootstrap 1600 @ 64
> > > (800.0k) NewWorld bootblock
> > > /dev/hda3 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 524288 @ 1664
> > > (256.0M) Linux swap
> > > /dev/hda4 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 root 25165824 @ 525952
> > > ( 12.0G) Linux native
> > > /dev/hda5 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 home 16395360 @ 25691776
> > > ( 7.8G) Linux native
> > > /dev/hda6 Apple_HFS MacOSX 66524736 @ 42087136
> > > ( 31.7G) HFS
> > > /dev/hda7 Apple_Free Extra 8598368 @
> > > 108611872 ( 4.1G) Free space
> > >
> > > Block size=512, Number of Blocks=117210240
> > > DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0
> > >
> > > as you can see, i have hda7 as free space.
> > >
> > > I want to use it to share data.
> > >
> > > What do you recomend? hfs or ufs?
> >
> > HFS is supported by the kernel, but the max size is 2GB,
> > max number of files 32000.
>
> It *seems* Linux (2.4.18-newpmac) sees more than 2 GB.
>
> Excerpt from mac-fdisk for my /dev/hda on an Apple PB G4. /dev/hda13 below
> is a HFS partition. Excerpt is reformatted for this posting:
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> /dev/hda13 Apple_HFS LINUX.MAC.HFS 8749296 @ 38921056 ( 4.2G) HFS
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> I haven't tried yet to access every single file on /dev/hda13, so I cannot
> gauge whether Linux really sees the whole 4.2 G. But I just mounted the
> partion for this mail: it seems to work ...
I suspect what will happen is that when you actually try to use sectors
beyond 2G, the files will disappear. That's what happened under MacOS.
The limitation is in the number of bits used to address sectors.
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