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My first pc had it's 40mb hard drive divided into partitions because DOS 3.3 with FAT12 only supported positions up to 32mb.. Just a couple years later there w

by c2h5oh 7y ago

My first pc had it's 40mb hard drive divided into partitions because DOS 3.3 with FAT12 only supported positions up to 32mb.. Just a couple years later there was the whole LBA trickery to get around 528mb limit ide io and BIOS irq 13.. Year or two later it was 2.1gb because BIOSes used 12 bits for cylinder count... Next couple years brought 3 or 4 separate limits still under 10gb stemming mostly from shit fixes for the ones mentioned above.. All of that happened in the 90s. There was more later. Unix is changing time representation for the first time after all those years..

selckin 7y ago
currently my nas can't create partitions for my new 16TB disks
- raverbashing 7y ago
  The advice is old but still valid. If you can avoid big partitions, do so. Formatting, backing up, data recovery. It's at those moments that smaller partitions give you much less trouble than the bigger ones
- StillBored 7y ago
  Presumably because its running a 32-bit linux kernel? That is a problem too (hit me recently too with a MD device), but the solution has been to switch to a 64-bit kernel.