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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kristian =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=F6hntopp?=) > Date: 1996/07/28 > Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Organization: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?entf=E4llt?= > Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system > > -- > Dirk Eddelb"uttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd > >
