Hello everybody,
i am trying to setup a 400 GB e2fs partition on
a icp-vortex raid controller. I have encounterd some
problems setting this up. I am running SuSE 6.1 with
a kernel ver. 2.2.7.
The partiontable is :
Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 51315 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 128 1028128+ 83 Linux native
/dev/sda2 129 256 1028160 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda3 257 51315 410131417+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 257 766 4096543+ 83 Linux native
/dev/sda6 767 51315 406034810+ 83 Linux native
After that, i formated sda6 with
mke2fs -m0 -b 1024 -i 1024 -R stride=32 /dev/sda6
Then the first strange thing happened. The
process of formating the disk took approximately 8 hours
and the machine did not react to any commands from
the console. No login was possible and all virtual consoles
did not react. After the mke2fs the machine was
back to normal. But now i have only 265GB diskspace
available!
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/sda1 995115 636891 306818 67% /
/dev/sda5 3958767 19113 3734827 1% /var
/dev/sda6 278355369 72671034 205684335 26% /var/spool/news
Are there any limitation in the kernel? I thought linux
supports partition up to some terabytes.
Kind regards,
Christian Braun
