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Andrew Smith

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Jan 5, 1995, 2:31:22 PM1/5/95
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Jim Hribnak (hri...@nucleus.com) wrote:

: Whats the max partition size for BSDI? We just got a 4.1 gig seagate
: drive that we are going to install. I am going to have a NEWS only
: partition etc..

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Fsck has a bug where it can't handle file systems > 2 Gb. You'll have to
split the drive up. Probably have alt in one partition and the rest in
another.

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Jim Hribnak

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James da Silva

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Phil Trubey

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Jan 9, 1995, 2:59:00 AM1/9/95
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In article <3ehheo$4...@uuneo.neosoft.com> you write:
>Jim Hribnak (hri...@nucleus.com) wrote:
>
>: Whats the max partition size for BSDI? We just got a 4.1 gig seagate
>: drive that we are going to install. I am going to have a NEWS only
>: partition etc..
>
>: Jim Hribnak | Manager Communication Services | Nucleus Information Service
>: ---------------------------------------------| 403-531-9353 ( 2400) 11 lines
>: Finger: @nis.nucleus.com | 403-531-9370 (19200) 39 lines
>: WWW : http://www.nucleus.com/ | 403-249-9009 (voice)
>: 50 SLIP lines via MajorBBS | 50 Access Lines (60 Soon)
>: ---------------------------------------------- hri...@nucleus.com
>
>Fsck has a bug where it can't handle file systems > 2 Gb. You'll have to
>split the drive up. Probably have alt in one partition and the rest in
>another.

There is apparantly a patch available directly from BSDI (not an
official patch) that allows you to create a 4GB partition.

The v2.0 BSDI release (whenever it comes out - 6 weeks late so far
and counting - which isn't bad if you compare that with some other
notable OSes), will allow huge partition sizes much greater than 4GB.

The latest rev of both INN and cnews allows you to span your news
spool across multiple partitions - both can use symbolic links to
keep referenced articles together. So the Right Now solution is
to create 2 2GB partitions, put alt on one, the rest of news on the
other partition (for example) and go to it.

For those people wondering how much disk space USENET news takes up,
have a look at my handy USENET news spool space calcuator located
at

http://www.netpart.com/janus/usenet.html


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