Is max HPFS drive size only 2 GB? [No]

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From: Frank McKenney
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 00:00

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In <43a7vt$aat@News1.mcs.net>, itsinc@mcs.com writes:
>	I found this quote in OS/2's README file today, and I need to know
>if it's right.  I was 99% sure HPFS could support larger drives.

>If this is true, can HPFS386 (from LAN Server) handle larger drives?

Steve,

HPFS can support, I believe, up to 512 Gb, which even with todays technology
leaps should hold you/us/he/she/it for at least... two more years? (;-)

FAT <is> stuck with the 2 Gb limit.

You say this came from a README file shipped with OS/2. Can you tell me 
which one (file name) and which OS/2 version it came from? This kind of typo
needs to be corrected...

Frank McKenney            / OS/2 Advisor (OS2BBS)
McKenney Associates       / Richmond, Virginia / (804) 320-4887
Internet: rrs0059@ibm.net / TalkLink: WZ01123

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Subject: Is max HPFS drive size only 2 GB? [No]
Date: 1995/09/15
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