On Monday 16 December 2002 09:06 am, Guy Van Sanden wrote: > Reiser 3.5 and 3.6 can handle up to 17.6 Terrabyte in a single > filesystem. (check www.namesys.com) > Practically speaking this is also the maximum file size, which is > logical given the partition size. > > So it shouldn't be reiser... maybe the drive is malfunctioning, or it is > not supported by your BIOS (that large). This used to be the case with > 2-4 GB drivers in 486's or early pentiums. The manufacturers often get > arround this by installing some low-level driver. Unfortunately these > are often incompatible with *NIX. > > Maybe you can try JFS, XFS or EXT3 to check? >
Thanks man... It turns out to me far worse than I suspected. At first I thought I was exceeding the partition size. Turns out I just made the mistake of buying a Western Digital drive! Arrrgggg.... > Kind regards > > Guy > > > Perhaps a dumb question, but what is the maximum partition size you can > > make a linux ext2, or reisfer or any other linux partition? The reason I > > ask, is I just purchased a 180gb IDE drive and Reiser is choking. I've > > done a cursory search on the internet and not seeing anything.
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