Hello
A week ago, I have posted this message :
> I have a problem with a partition bigger than 2 gigas under SunOS
> 4.1.2.
>
> We have a Sparc Station ELC with 2 disks. One of this disk is a 700 Mo
> disk drive with SunOS 4.1.2 and the other is a 4,3 Go with Solaris
> 2.4.
> This station is a dual boot station. It can run under Solaris 2.4 or
> under SunOS 4.1.2 depending of the boot disk.
> When this station run SunOS 4.1.1 we want it to reach a partition of
> the Solaris 2.4 drive. This partition is a *big* one, this size is
> near 3 gigas.
>
> Is it possible to do this ?
> Is SunOS 4.1.2 can handle such a partition ?
> Do we have to install a patch ?
> Do we have to make this partition smaller ?
>
> Thanks a lot for your help.
I have received a lot or answers, and all (but one) said that SunOS 4.x
can *NOT* handle disk partititions bigger than 2 Go. This limitations is
due to the offset size restriction (2^31-1, a signed int).
There is three solutions :
- Use Online Disksuite.
- Put the disk with the 4Go partition on a Solaris 2 station and use it
by NFS on the Solaris 1 station.
- Make smaller partitions.
I have made smaller partitions.
Thank you all for your answers to my stupid question !
Merci a :
Bill Reed <reedwv@expu79.stp.xfi.bp.com>
Bob Reardon (bobr@houston.wireline.SLB.COM)
Brad Burdick <bburdick@radio.com>
Casper Dik <casper@fwi.uva.nl>
Daniel E. Zegarac <zegarac@gdls.com>
Harry H. Sun" <Harry.H.Sun@cc.gettysburg.edu>
Josh Goldsmith (joshin@sei.com)
Kevin Sheehan {Consulting Poster Child} (Kevin.Sheehan@uniq.com.au)
Larry Chin <Larry_Chin@ca.cch.com>
Paul Hostrup-Jessen (phj06@bk.dk)
Roger Graham (rgraham@cbetech.com.au)
Russ Poffenberger (poffen@San-Jose.ate.slb.com)
Karim Saouli (saouli@math.ethz.ch)
Stephen Potter (spp@vx.com)
Ted Nolan SRI Ft Gordon <ted@ags.ga.erg.sri.com>
-Fr=E9d=E9ric Piard.
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