From: qx@shire.math.columbia.edu (Qi Xia) Subject: Re: can't create partition Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1993 01:46:30 GMT
In <8660.1189.uupcb@satalink.com> John Will wrote:
>>of 64 Mb. Don't despair, though... the ext fs allows something like 4 Tera-
>>byte size partitions. I think this number is the same for xiafs and ext2 as
>>well.
>You may have difficulty actually creating a large partition, unless you have
>64mb of RAM! With 8mb of RAM, I was unable to create a 260mb ext2
>partition, and I saw a message from someone that couldn't create a 130mb
>one with 4mb of RAM. So the capability is there if you have immense amounts
>of RAM... I don't know if having swap space would allow you to create
>larger partitions, but since I was in the SLS install, I didn't have a
>partition defined to put the swap space on... :-)
With 30KB free space (not MB) you can create any size xiafs partition.
If you'd like to install SLS with xiafs, you may get H. Lu's bootable
rootdisk. Make it installed. Then, install the program from SLS which
is missing from the rootdisk.
In fact, H. Lu's bootable rootdisk supports both xiafs and ext2fs. So, you
can try both and make you own decision.
Frank Xia.