I have a Suse 2.2.16 and 2.4.7 Linux systems that I need to assign several Gigabytes to for oracle databases, I have 3390 mod 9s and the 2.4.7 seems to allow this but my 2.2.16 system gives the following errors during initialization
fsck /dev/dasdf1 , Parallelizing fsck version 1.19a (13-Jul-2000) , e2fsck 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 , /dev/dasdf1 contains a file system with errors, check forced. Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes , Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes , Inode 635233 has imagic flag set. Clear<y>?, yes , Inode 635234 is in use, but has dtime set. Fix<y>? yes , Inode 635235 is in use, but has dtime set. Fix<y>? yes , Inode 635235 has imagic flag set. Clear<y>? yes , Inode 635236 is in use, but has dtime set. Fix<y>?,y, Inode 635236 has imagic flag set. Clear<y>? yes , Inode 635237 is in use, but has dtime set. Fix<y>?,y, Inode 635237 has imagic flag set. Clear<y>? yes , Inode 635238 is in use, but has dtime set. Fix<y>?,yes , Special (device/socket/fifo) inode 635238 has non-zero size. Fix<y>? yes Inode 635239 is in use, but has dtime set. Fix<y>?,y, Inode 635239 has imagic flag set. Clear<y>? yes , . . Inode 635315 has imagic flag set. Clear<y>? yes , , Inode 635316 is in use, but has dtime set. Fix<y>? this seems to go on forever, and I've attempted to format this volume several times. So, is there a maximum volume size for 2.2.16 and what about 2.4.7 and what is the fastest and most reliable way to append these together; LVM or RAID and is this version related? Regards Terry
