From 6cd8db57b686335ad2d3d4c4fd977d30b392de39 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Samuel Thibault Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2021 03:13:45 +0200 Subject: Be more specific about the disk limitations --- faq/2_gib_partition_limit.mdwn | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'faq') diff --git a/faq/2_gib_partition_limit.mdwn b/faq/2_gib_partition_limit.mdwn index 68325cff..fa5105bd 100644 --- a/faq/2_gib_partition_limit.mdwn +++ b/faq/2_gib_partition_limit.mdwn @@ -13,10 +13,10 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] [[!meta title="Is there still a 2 GiB ext2fs disk partition limit?"]] -The 2 GiB limit has been removed. +The 2 GiB ext2fs limit has been removed. IDE disk drivers however currently do not support more than 2^28 sectors, i.e. 128GiB. -The AHCI disk driver supports up to 2^32 sectors, i.e. 2TiB. +The gnumach AHCI disk driver supports up to 2^48 sectors, i.e. 128PiB, but the device interface supports only 2^32 sectors, i.e. 2TiB. 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. -- cgit v1.2.3