DOS ain't dead - Ranish Partition Manager revived

Ranish Partition Manager revived (Announce)

posted by boeckmann, Aachen, Germany, 14.01.2023, 13:06

> Hi,
> first of all I wanted to let you know that fdisk behaves strange on virtual
> hds that are a little bigger than 2 tb, see:
> https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/base/fdisk/-/issues/11

Sadly reaching or crossing the 2TiB barrier triggeres undefined behaviour in many DOS programs.

The FreeDOS format utility for example crashes with a division by zero error when formatting partitions exactly or slightly less in size than 2TiB. Not sure if there is a bug report opened yet.

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Ranish Partition Manager revived - boeckmann, 11.11.2022, 15:11 (Announce)
- Ranish Partition Manager revived - glennmcc, 11.11.2022, 18:40
  - Ranish Partition Manager revived - boeckmann, 11.11.2022, 21:53
- Ranish Partition Manager revived - bretjohn, 11.11.2022, 19:42
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        Ranish Partition Manager revived - boeckmann, 14.01.2023, 22:26
        Ranish Partition Manager revived - ecm, 15.01.2023, 12:50
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        Ranish Partition Manager revived - boeckmann, 15.01.2023, 16:14
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        Ranish Partition Manager revived - fritz.mueller, 18.01.2023, 12:50
        Ranish Partition Manager revived - boeckmann, 18.01.2023, 14:05
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        Ranish Partition Manager revived - boeckmann, 18.01.2023, 21:15
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- Ranish Partition Manager revived - rr, 12.11.2022, 11:10
  - Ranish Partition Manager revived - boeckmann, 12.11.2022, 12:09
    - Ranish Partition Manager revived - rr, 12.11.2022, 21:08
- Ranish Partition Manager revived - roytam, 16.11.2022, 16:39
  - Ranish Partition Manager revived - boeckmann, 17.11.2022, 12:04
- Ranish Partition Manager revived - usotsuki, 27.11.2022, 10:00