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Author: KevinBuettnerkev@primenet.com
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Subject: max ext2 partition
On Nov 14, 10:02pm, Don Harrop wrote:

> I've been doing some Linux on some bigger HD's lately. Seems like the
> largest partition ext2 can support is 8gigs. Am I stuck with this or is
> there a trick to creating a larger partition that I don't know about? Is
> there a way to connect two drives together as one logical partition? I
> wan't to create the biggest partition I can in Linux with the utilities
> that come with the a standard Linux distro.


I have a 17GB ext2 partition on one of my drives. ext2 can go even
larger, but I'm not sure it's worth it due to extremely long fsck
times.

My guess is that you just need a newer version of lilo.

Kevin