Re: [MiNT] Another tale from Remi... ;-)

[maxilys@normandnet.fr (Remi Villatel)]

Hi Guido Flohr, on 19 Mar 00 you said: 

 GF> 2^31 = 2147483647 = LONG_MAX

 GF> One of the tools Remi uses is limited to unsigned long when it comes to
 GF> addressing the partitions (2.1 GB is LONG_MAX), be it HD-Driver, be it
 GF> the kernel or be it the minix driver.  Remi, better change your mind again
 GF> and don't use any partitions larger than 2.1 GB.

The only tool limited to 2 Gb that I use is Kobold... The partitions were 
created with HD-Driver which has no limit AFAIK. (It says that the partitions 
are 2177,9 Mb.) The FS were installed with 'mkfs.minix' and 'mkfs.ext2' which 
are supposed to know and respect the limits of the FS they install. And finally 
the files were copied with 'cp'...

Even my desktop (Jinnee) is able to tell me how many bytes these partitions 
contain! That is: 2.279.239.680 on minix partitions, 2.283.723.776 on ext2 
partition. 'df' says: 2.225.820 and 2.230.199 Kb-blocks. (That's correct.)

I don't think I should expect problems. Even Kobold works when the free space 
on the partition is below 2 Gb. So, I won't change my mind... Especially after 
having copied 57.674 files, 3.765 folders (and 59 links) on theses 3 
partitions. (More than 1.7 GB!) No way! I took me hours with that snail called 
'cp' ...on an Hades 060! I won't do it again very soon...

And I (want to) believe that the future disk tools will all handle huge 
partitions (...even faster). The hard disk aren't becoming smaller and smaller. 
My so-called "6.8 Gb" hard disk (6.38 computer-Gb) is a relatively small hard 
disk nowadays... And I just have around 10 Gb of hard disk on my "little" 
Atari-clone.  ;-)

See you later,

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Remi Villatel
E-mail: maxilys@normandnet.fr
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