Re: llseek error & large partitions
I checked the article below out - and instead of using the debian
install I did a ' mke2fs -b 2048 /dev/sda1'. I also tried a 4k
block and still received the same results(an lseek error).
Am I doing this correctly?
Mike Bigus
mikeb@manressa.com
>
> Johnny> I do not know why this happens, only that the same thing happend
> Johnny> to me when I tried to format my Quantum Sirrocco 2.5 Gig hard
> Johnny> drive. Around about the 2.1 gig it starts reporting errors. I can
> Johnny> only assume that the system cannot handle partitions over 2 gig.
>
> You need a version of fdisk that as recent as 2.0 or better to support disks
> bigger than 2 GB, for example the fdisk from util-linux-2.5 which says
>
> miles:~ [root] # fdisk -v
> fdisk v2.1 (>4GB)
>
> As for maximal partition size, read (using altavista or dejanews) the
> newsgroup article with referenced below, it shows how partitions can be as
> large as 959 GB (yes, just under one TB, a million MB). You have to increase
> the block size which becomes a little inefficient at that size ...
>
> I cannot recommend few big partitions anyway. Disks do fail, and you're
> better off when it happens on a limited partition, /usr/local say, rather
> than on /.
>
>
> Subject: Re: Really 2 GB file size limit?
> From: kris@schulung.netuse.de (Kristian =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=F6hntopp?=)
> Date: 1996/07/28
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