On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 08:33:46PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Tuesday 2009 January 13 19:36:22 Paul E Condon wrote: > >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.) > > HD hardware interfaces do not know where files begin and end.[1] You *might* > be using a filesystem that limits you to 4Gb. If so, LVM won't buy you > anything and you'll have to switch filesystems.
My hope is that I can write a bunch of 4G files mount them as 4G hard drives, and group them into a single 'volume group' whose total capacity is some large multiple of 4G. Is this impossible? -- 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