Using Partitioning with Hard Disks Over 2 GB

There is one aspect to partitioning that is pretty clear-cut: if you have a hard disk that is over 2 GB in size, and you are not using FAT32, you must divide the disk into partitions such that each is no larger than 2 GB, in order to access the entire disk. If you do not, you will not be able to access more than the first 2 GB on the disk. (You will in most cases want to use partitions smaller than 2 GB in size anyway, to reduce slack).

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