Re: Partitioning large disks on potato
Martijn van Oosterhout said:
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> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to partition a 160GB disk on potato with kernel 2.4.17. Both
> fdisk and cfdisk die with SIGXFSZ. Even dd is getting killed after 4GB.
> Did potato really have no large file support? Why is it that I've never
> noticed before? I've been using 2.2 kernels for a long time before this.
what kind of disk and what controller? is it a single IDE disk? if
so you may need a patch for 48-bit IDE addressing.
I have partitioned/formatted 220GB disks (6x80GB in raid10 connected
to a 3ware raid card) without any trouble under debian potato/2.2.19,
it should work fine under 2.4.x, I am thinking its an addressing problem
though.
nate
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