On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 09:24:15AM -0500, Brian McKee wrote: > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Paul E Condon <p...@mesanetworks.net> 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.) > > As the others have pointed out - that doesn't seem likely. A drive is > just a bit bucket that doesn't grok it's own contents.
This is true, but it appears that the program, mount, does grok the contents, and refuses to mount a drive unless it finds something that it believes is sensible in the bits in that bucket. But see below: > > However, let's say for the sake of argument you don't want to have any > files over 4 gig. Why not shrink the existing partition and create a > series of 4 gig partitions, then use them for physical volumes in LVM. > Much simpler than getting loop devices in there etc. Last night I tried again to put an ext3 file system on the drive. This was something that I had been unable to do almost a year ago and had come to believe was impossible for various 'reasons'. Last night I succeeded. So the whole basis for my question dissolved. I don't know why I failed last year when I tried the obvious solution, I don't think I will ever know. I'm really sorry for having exercised so many people over my crazy question. I hope you thought it was an interesting puzzle and enjoyed thinking about it, but, truth to tell, I must have been doing something mistaken. Thanks, all, for your help, and I hope I haven't worn out my welcome. -- 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
