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  From: Tom Dunstan <tommyd@senet.com.au>
  To  : Evan Bourlotos <evan@cs.adelaide.edu.au>
  Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 21:32:55 +0930

Re: More space required

Evan Bourlotos wrote:

> The extfs utilities are on sourceforge so they will no doubt do the trick.

I'm waiting for the logical volume stuff which (I think) is in the 2.4
kernel, which should make most of this stuff (partition enlarging)
redundant.

> Is there a limitation as to how much disk linux will recognise?
> I have heard things like 8gb is its limit etc.
> Can anyone explain this for me please.

I'm not aware of any limits for linux itself, but old versions of lilo
restricted you to booting linux off of the first 1024 cylinders on the
disk, which for a number of disks is the first 8GB. Newer versions fix
it, but only the most recent distros have it (ie last couple of months).
The grub boot loader doesn't have any problems. 

Tom

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