Disk size on my NT

Peter Blake ppb at baloo.tcp.co.uk
Sat Feb 14 08:58:58 GMT 1998


On Wed, 11 Feb 1998 tmh/Copenhagen at manbw.dk wrote:

>      HI Samba Admin's
>      
>      I have a share called "archive". The disksize on the HP is 7GB, my NT 
>      3.51 and NT 4.0 says it's 4GB.
>      
>      Can anyone help me?
> 

Hi,

W95 would report it as 2GBytes. It's a fundamental limitation of a 32-bit
integer: unsigned = 4 GBytes, signed = 2 GBytes.

You will have to partition the drive to make all of it useable by the M$
products. I think it might be distinctly dodgy to use it as it is.

Regards,


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Peter Blake
ppb at hft.co.uk
ppb at baloo.tcp.co.uk




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