[ISSUE]: Cannot create a partition larger than 4096gb

[GDX-X]

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Describe the issue

Hello I can not create a partition of more than 4096gb or more I have tried several versions of pfsshell the problem persists

Console model

SCPH-39004

[AKuHAK]

@GDX-X could you confirm that this bug also persists in the beta version?

[GDX-X]

@AKuHAK Yes I still confirm present in the beta version

[GDX-X]

If you want more info when I create the 128gb __.POPS partition on wLaunchELF. pfsshell will see it in increments of 4096M B

[AKuHAK]

Mmm I dont see any bug here... Could you tell me what is the problem? The screen looks valid.

[AKuHAK]

Also could you run ls -l command

[uyjulian]

I believe this is the correct behavior. PFS does not support partitions larger than a certain size.

[AKuHAK]

@GDX-X also looks like you qre not using the dev build of pfsshell. ls -l command will work only in the latest build.

[AKuHAK]

@GDX-X

1. You are not using the latest version of pfsshell
2. This is expected behaviour

Look:

# ls -l
0x0001     128MB  2018-08-04 03:29  __mbr
0x0100     128MB  2001-10-21 00:24  __net/
0x0100     256MB  2018-08-04 03:29  __system/
0x0100     512MB  2018-08-04 03:29  __sysconf/
0x0100    1024MB  2018-08-04 03:29  __common/
0x0100    1024MB  2018-08-04 17:04  PP.SLPS-20200.1000.POLVIEWER/
0x0100    1024MB  2018-08-06 21:40  PP.SCUS-97269.1000.POLVIEWER/
0x0100    1024MB  2019-03-31 17:06  __contents/
0x0100    1024MB  2019-03-31 17:08  __linux.9/
0x0100    1024MB  2019-03-31 17:08  __linux.9@
0x0088     512MB  2018-11-14 23:34  __linux.4
0x0088     512MB  2018-11-14 23:36  __linux.5
0x0088     128MB  2018-11-14 23:36  __linux.6
0x0082     128MB  2018-11-14 23:39  __linux.2
0x0088     256MB  2018-11-14 23:40  __linux.7
0x0083     512MB  2013-10-24 02:08  __linux.10
0x0083    1024MB  2013-10-31 01:20  __linux.1
0x0083    1024MB  2013-10-31 01:20  __linux.1@
0x0100     256MB  2013-11-01 01:48  PP.POPS/
0x0100     128MB  2012-12-22 23:33  PP.ULE/
0x0100     128MB  2019-03-31 18:38  PP.OPL/
0x0000     512MB  2019-03-16 21:12  __empty%
0x0100    1024MB  2019-03-16 21:12  PP.SLPM-65981.0004.FMO/
0x0100    1024MB  2019-03-16 21:12  PP.SLPM-65981.0004.FMO@
0x0100    1024MB  2019-03-16 21:12  PP.SLPM-65981.0004.FMO@
0x0100    1024MB  2019-03-16 21:12  PP.SLPM-65981.0004.FMO@
0x0100    1024MB  2019-03-16 21:12  PP.SLPM-65981.0004.FMO@
0x0100    1024MB  2019-03-16 21:12  PP.SLPM-65981.0004.FMO@
0x0100    1024MB  2019-03-16 21:12  PP.SLPM-65981.0004.FMO@
0x0100    1024MB  2019-03-16 21:12  PP.SLPM-65981.0004.FMO@

If you see /symbol at the end - this means that this is the main partition of type PFS. If you see @symbol at the end - this means that this is the sub-partition of any type. If you see %symbol at the end - this means that this is an empty partition (free space).

Any partition should contain one main partition and many sub-partitions - this is how the APA partition scheme works.

pfsshell shows the low-level structure, it doesn't have an option to show high-level structure (showing only main partition metadata and calculating partition size by summing all main partitions and subpartitions together as wlaucnhELF does). You should understand that both options are valid, pfsshell uses more low-level options.