On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 06:08:05PM -0800, Jeff D wrote: > On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > I want to allocate several large blank files on HD, > > and make them into virtual hard disk which I mount > > using loop. > > > > I then want to treat them as 'physical volumes' under > > LVM, and collect them into a single volume group. > > > > Then, I intend to define a few larger logical volumes > > on this 'volume group'. I do this because I want to > > store large files on a HD whose hardware interface > > limits file sizes to 4Gb, and I want to store larger > > files than 4Gb. ( The HD has 500Gb total capacity.) > > Maybe I'm missing something here, but how is the hardware interface > stopping you from writing files larger than 4G? That's just something I > haven't ran into. How is the drive formatted now? Can't you just format > the drive with ext3 or something else that supports large files? I don't > think that LVM is going to solve your problem here though. >
Yes, it's not hardware. Truth is it's vfat. I have had difficulty with Western Digital USB HD when I try to reformat tham for ext3, and they special software from WD to rewrite the vfat format. A software overlay seemed a good way to go. I'm still hoping. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org