scribbled wildly after reading Tom Brinkman > On Sunday November 24 2002 10:05 pm, Jack Coates wrote: >> dropped a new 40GB IDE drive into one of my MDK9 boxes and used >> diskdrake to do one big partition and format it as ext3fs. This went >> successfully and it reported 38GB usable, so I proceeded to copy my >> mp3s over -- which halted at 1.3GB with disk full. df -h verified that >> the volume was in fact 1.3G in size. I repeated the process a few >> times with reboots and what not, no soap. What finally worked was >> doing an ext2 partition and then converting it to ext3. > > A few months ago I did much the same other than it was an 80 gig IDE > > Maxtor, and I divided it into one fat32, and five ext3 partitions. > Total of 76 gigs. I copied 4 gigs of mp3's to one of the ext3 partitons > without any problem at all. 'df -h' shows the correct sizes. So the > only varibles seem to be hardware differences, or that I divided into > multiple partitions. While I'm runnin 9.1 now, the system was 9.0 when > I installed the 80gig. > -- > Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas
Tom, While I think I know the obvious answer to this question, how'd ya get 9.1 on your system already? -- Mark "Stupidity has no moral high ground. It can't see that high!"
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