From: utzoo!decvax!cca!Schauble.Multics@MIT-MULTICS@sri-unix Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: V6 to V7 conversion Article-I.D.: sri-unix.2154 Posted: Tue Jul 20 01:07:52 1982 Received: Sun Jul 25 00:45:49 1982 Date: 25 June 1982 00:06 edt The Unix V6 file system had a rather severe limitation on the size of a single filesystem. I understand that this is becuase the block numbers in the inodes were stored as single words. V7 removes this restriction. Yet, I am told that it is standard practice on V7 systems to continue to partition mass storage devices. Is there some non-obvious advantage to be gained from this?