Originally Posted By: tman
The FID cap is altered by set_empeg_max_fid for your specific disk and how its partitioned. The total number of FIDs you're allowed isn't the same for everybody unless they've got exactly the same HD.

It's not quite as random as that. In fact, all the disks I've seen above 8Gbytes have the same cylinder size, so the same calculation would apply to them all. I'm just not sure whether or not that's actually guaranteed for every disk that big.

Peter