[Samba] "max disk size = 2047" by share

[Erik Ranà]

It is a limitation in ghost, maybe because they uses dos? im not quite 
shure.
Anyway have seen it on 80+Gb drives that are on w2k pro with windows 
networking .
use ghost.exe /? for parameters or 
http://www.symantec.com/techsupp/enterprise/products/symghost/symghost_75/manuals.html
Symantec Ghost 7.5 Implementation Guide.

i think you need -auto as a parameter ;)

/Erik Ranà

Ron Creamer wrote:

>We regularly boot ghost from a special DOS floppy to upload/backup a
>disk image to a samba server from our important servers.
>
>Currently, in our smb.conf we have to specify "max disk size = 2047",
>because if we don't, ghost complains that there is not enough room to
>store the backup image. Not enough room, that is, with over 40GB free.
>Anyway, it's an old DOS FAT 16 limitation I think.
>
>The "max disk size" parameter is global to smb.conf, and therefore, all
>our normal users on all other shares see disk space free as only 2GB.
>
>Does anybody know of a way to specify this on a share by share basis?
>This way, we could set the max disk size only on the ghost share, and
>have the other shares showing their true disk size.
>
>Thanks
>