From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alexander Zarochentsev Subject: Re: create very large file system Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 16:57:38 +0400 Message-ID: <200607191657.38644.zam@namesys.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com Cc: Mark F , Ext3-users@redhat.com On Wednesday 19 July 2006 16:10, Mark F wrote: > Suse Linux Enterprise Server 9 SP3 > > I've tried to create a large 5TB file system using both reiserfs and > ext3 and both have failed. how did they fail? > > I end up with only a 1.5TB file system. Does anyone know why this > doesn't work, what to do to fix it? you have a single 5TB device? h/w raid, I think ? you might need to convert the partition table to GPT format for supporting 2TB+ partitions. it can be done by the gnu parted tool. > Others have suggested that only XFS or JFS will work. Is this so? > > Thanks, > -Mark -- Alex.