From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark F Subject: Create very large filesystem on Linux Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 15:10:23 -0500 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:8940 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932381AbWGRUPU (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jul 2006 16:15:20 -0400 Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1G2vyA-0007iM-1r for linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 22:15:02 +0200 Received: from 128.158.123.221 ([128.158.123.221]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 22:15:02 +0200 Received: from mfaine by 128.158.123.221 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 22:15:02 +0200 To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org 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? Thanks, -Mark