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On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 05:03:31PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:

> So, will the DOS partition make it up to 2TB?  If so, then we won't have
> a problem until we have larger than 2TB drives

Yes, DOS partition table works up to 2^32 sectors, and with
2^9-byte sectors that is 2 TiB.

People are encountering that limit already. We need something
better, either use some existing scheme, or invent something.

Andries