Thank you to the many list members who responded to
my question. Neither the drive size nor partition size are
a problem under DU. One manager has told me of a single 16 GB
filesystem on a RAID.
Caveats incude considering carefully the backup strategy
when planning partitions, and the long formatting and fscking times.
Several suggested using Advfs.
Jim
My original question:
I am interested in replacing an aging crochety drive on
my Alpha 3000/600, and would like to solve my space problems as
well. I would like to purchase and install one of the new ~9 GB
drives, since SCSI addreeses are in short supply. I have a few
questions before doing this.
1) Is there a 2.0 GB limit on partition sizes in Digital Unix?
(I am now running 3.2c).
2) Are there any other caveats when installing large drives on DU?
Thanks!
Jim Beatty
Penn State Physics Dept.
Received on Wed Jun 12 1996 - 21:18:45 NZST