Re: Is max HPFS drive size only 2 GB?

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From: itsinc
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 00:00

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In <DF7txE.11Bn@bocanews.bocaraton.ibm.com>, Doug_Azzarito@bocaraton.ibm.com (Doug Azzarito) writes:
>The current HPFS has a 64GB partition limit.  It "honors" the OS/2 limit of 2GB
>per file, but there is no HPFS limit on file size (other than how much freespace
>you have on your partition).
>
>The HPFS design limit is 2TB per partition.  The current code doesn't support it,
>but if drives continue to grow, HPFS can be modified to handle 2TB drives on
>a single partition.
>
> -- Doug Azzarito
>    "The OS/2 Guy"
>    (the 'yahoo' who wrote "The OS/2 Warp Survival Guide", and the current
>     developer of HPFS)

	Thanks for jumping in.  I suppose if anyone knows for sure, you
would.  :)  This accounts for some of the different numbers I was seeing,
at least.

Steve

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