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Re: [MiNT] Partition sizes

> If there really is a 2GB limit in Mint fs then can it be increased ?
>
It's probably quite painful process as this 2GB limit is from using
signed integers for storing file sizes. So every place where file
sizes are used / calculated in both mintlib and freemint must be
changed to something bigger (like 64-bit value) but I'm not really
sure if it's even possible in all cases since most (all) GEMDOS calls
return stuff in LONG (32-bit) and bit #31 is used as indicator for
error => 2 GB limit. If this would be changed, 99% of existing apps
would stop to work.

Hmm, it's really bad thing this heritage from 80s...


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