max hd size on linux?

[yoyo25]

I have noticed recently that there are lot of "big" hard drives out in the market, and was wondering if they can be used with redhat with large partitions. Like if i buy 3 120gig hard drives and a ide raid card, can redhat handle large partition sizes of up to 120gigs or more? Anyhow have first hand experience with this?

 

[Soulkeeper]

the limit of the ata100 spec if you are using an ide hard drive (somewhere around 140gb)
if it is scsi i wouldn't know

 

[AMDPwred]

That's a good question. Everytime I've installed any distro of Nix it's been on a small drive.

 

[CQuinn]

Linux uses a 32-bit file system (ext2fs, or some variant); Like FAT32 or NTFS.

The "theoretical limit" for such filessystems is up to 2 Terabytes.

The limit on the ATA-100 spec is 128GB,
(also written as 137GB by the hard drive makers, because they have to measure things differently).

The ATA-133 spec expands the physical address range, so larger IDE drives can be made,
such as the Maxtor 160, SCSI drives did not have that problem, as is shown by
the Seagate Barracuda 180.

 

[yoyo25]

(bump) for a more definative answer?