boy, if you really care about your problem, *USE* ext3-users: > oh, and please respond on-list, perhaps other ppl are curious > about some details too ;) really. Tobias Amon schrieb:> Hi, > > I use e2fsprogs version 1.5.2 (I think)http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/ exists, latest version is 1.35.> I got another solution. Yast, which came with Suse > is not able to create partitions larger than 2 TB > the "parted" tool can do so.??? this doesn't make any sense. when using "mkfs.*", you are supposed to already *have* created such a large partition. once this is done, you can format it.> So I have to make partitions manually and format them with "mke2fs"man mkfs.ext3. hoping not to feed the troll, Christian.
On Dec 08, 2004 18:10 +0100, Christian wrote:> Tobias Amon schrieb: > >I use e2fsprogs version 1.5.2 (I think) > > http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/ exists, latest version is 1.35. > > >I got another solution. Yast, which came with Suse > >is not able to create partitions larger than 2 TB > >the "parted" tool can do so.So this is entirely a problem with Yast, and not mke2fs/e2fsprogs. Please ask SuSE about that. When you do create such a large filesystem, it would be sensible to test it once first by creating some large files in the fs (enough to fill it up, either many small ones or fewer large ones) that have a verifiable data pattern in them, like "64-bit byte_offset:32-bit inum" at the start of each 4kB block. Then read back the files and verify the data is still correct. If this fails, try the same thing on the raw block device to check if it can write data > 2TB at the correct offsets. The reason I ask is that I'm personally not 100% convinced that larger than 2TB filesystems are working properly yet. One of our customers was testing with a ~4TB filesystem and they experienced data corruption when writing > 2TB of data. Since it was only for a demo we just went with mutliple 2TB filesystems and have not had an opportunity to determine if the problem was in MD RAID or ext3. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://members.shaw.ca/adilger/ http://members.shaw.ca/golinux/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://listman.redhat.com/archives/ext3-users/attachments/20041208/6b714b55/attachment.sig>