22 Jun
2001
22 Jun
'01
11:13 a.m.
On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Jeff Hellige wrote:
FAT16 is limited to 2G per partition. (it can be anything from
-2147483648 to 2147483648). In NT, you can have a 4G FAT16 partition
(they finally learned the difference between signed and unsigned numbers)
Through corruption of directory entries (signed numbers!!!), you can have
a file with a NEGATIVE size! When my drive was getting crowded, I stepped
on a floppy to make a -2G file and tried to copy that to the hard drive,
figuring that that would increase my free space by 2G. It didn't work.
FAT32 and NTFS don't have the 2G limit. I don't know what their limits
are.
I think that the 8G limit was a BIOS limit.
What limits still exist for the high end?
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com
Upper limit --
isn't it still 2gb per partition unless special disk manager
software is installed? NT has no restriction theoretically.
Under DOS with 16bit
access it's still 2gig per partition. I
believe it's 8gig per partition under the 32bit access of
95/98/NT/2000. Boot from a plain DOS disk for the install of one of
those though and you'll still be stuck with 2gig.