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diff --git a/faq/2_gib_partition_limit.mdwn b/faq/2_gib_partition_limit.mdwn index 654379a3..aece70b4 100644 --- a/faq/2_gib_partition_limit.mdwn +++ b/faq/2_gib_partition_limit.mdwn @@ -11,12 +11,14 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] [[!tag faq/support]] -[[!meta title="Is there still a 2 GiB ext2fs disk partition limit?"]] +[[!meta title="Is there still a 2 GiB / 128GiB ext2fs disk partition limit?"]] -The 2 GiB ext2fs limit has been removed. +The 2 GiB ext2fs limit has been removed since long. IDE disk drivers (`hd*`) however currently do not support more than 2^28 sectors, i.e. 128GiB. The gnumach AHCI disk driver (`sd*`) and rumpkernel drivers (`wd*`) support up to 2^48 sectors, i.e. 128PiB, but the device interface supports only 2^32 sectors, i.e. 2TiB. +To use disks bigger than 128GiB you can either switch your disk to AHCI (BIOS or virtualization) configuration, or switch to [[using the rumpkernel driver|/hurd/rump/rumpdisk]] + You can have a bigger disk, you just should not put disk partitions beyond these limits for the drivers to be able to read from them. |