Max usable disk space

[Tim]

On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 21:26 +0000, James Wilkinson wrote:

> It's not a bug in fdisk: it does exactly what it's supposed to do --
> handle MS-DOS style partition tables. It's those tables that can't
> handle devices larger than 2 TB -- there just isn't enough space in
> the fields. It's a harder limit than 640K was for real-mode DOS, or 2
> GB was for FAT16. Change the partition table format so it can handle
> larger devices, and *it's not DOS partition table format any more*,
> and operating systems that don't know about the new format can't use
> the disk. At all.

So would this limit only apply to your boot *disk*?  (Disk, not
partition.)  If you had a separate drive, for the really big one, could
your OS use something much larger than the BIOS knew what to do with?

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