> hda1 32M /boot

Why do people bother with this nonsense?

> hda2 500M swap
> hda3 20G /
> hda4 270 something /home (for the storage)
> 
> / and /home are formatted ext3. I anticipate quite large files. I
> formatted them quite simply with mke2fs -j.

> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda4             257G  129M  244G   1% /home

Compare with fdisk -l /dev/hda and tune2fs -l /dev/hda4.

What's the max size of ext2/3?

Try enlarging the filesystem (fsck, resize2fs).

> Before I start filling it up, is there a better way to format it?

Yes, reiserfs ;)

Volker

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