From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anton Altaparmakov Subject: Re: Create very large filesystem on Linux Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 08:29:58 +0100 Message-ID: <1153294198.13071.0.camel@imp.csi.cam.ac.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from ppsw-9.csi.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.8.139]:27354 "EHLO ppsw-9.csi.cam.ac.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932516AbWGSHaG (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jul 2006 03:30:06 -0400 To: Mark F In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 15:10 -0500, 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. > > I end up with only a 1.5TB file system and the rest is free space. Does anyone know why this doesn't work, what to do to fix it? Use XFS (or JFS if you prefer) and it will work fine. Best regards, Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov (replace at with @) Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ & http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/