In article <Pine.SOL.3.96.980619111236.14607A-100000@uxa.liv.ac.uk>,
	"Mr G.D. Tyson" <Dave.Tyson@liverpool.ac.uk> writes:
> 1) Ideally I would like the 9Gb disks to have a single large filesystem +
>    some swap. However I think the max size of a filesystem is limited to
>    2Gb - Is this still true ?

I once connected a Seagate Elite 23GB drive to my NetBSD system to test it.
And I hadn't any problems to use it as a single filesystem.

> [I cannot find any reference to this in the man pages or FAQ's - though
>  off_t seems to be 64 bits which implies > 2Gb files]

IIRC I create a 3.5GB file during the tests.

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