Ah, a nice and juicy thread! I appreciate your efforts at trying to get info down on all these obstacles and custom drivers/tools/file systems
I've visited Thomas' webpage and read the stuff here, but I'm having a hard time getting "into" all the stuff. I must say I've not quite been "un-confused" by this thread either, hehe.
If I take an example: I have an A600 with kick 3.1 and WB 3.1 (and also an A1200-060 with the same kick/WB, but the question is about the A600). I'd like to keep WB 3.1 on both. On both I have a Hong Kong IDE-CF adapter and a SanDisk Extreme IV CF-card.
If I were to buy a bigger CF-card, what is the largest I can go, while keeping some FFS-compatible filesystem (ie. sees standard FFS partition and WinUAE "harddisk folders" for when I backup stuff), how big a card could I buy, and how small do the partitions need to be? And what files would I need?
If I get some tips on what to go with, I could write up a tutorial when I've made it work.