On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 23:37:44 +0100, Richard Zidlicky wrote: > !!! WARNING !!! Kernel 2.4.18 (probably anything <2.4.21) > will eat filesystems on disks>137GB.
Read in Documentation/ide.txt of the Linux kernel sources: ============== How To Use *Big* ATA/IDE drives with Linux ------------------------------------------ The ATA Interface spec for IDE disk drives allows a total of 28 bits (8 bits for sector, 16 bits for cylinder, and 4 bits for head) for addressing individual disk sectors of 512 bytes each (in "Linear Block Address" (LBA) mode, there is still only a total of 28 bits available in the hardware). This "limits" the capacity of an IDE drive to no more than 128GB (Giga-bytes). All current day IDE drives are somewhat smaller than this upper limit, and within a few years, ATAPI disk drives will raise the limit considerably. ============== I suppose your 'Gb' was 10^9 bytes one (the one HD manufacturers use in their spec to make your believe that you got a bigger HD) and not the -true- 1024^3 bytes Giga-byte, so I guess you simply hit the 128Gb limit as described in the doc... Thierry.
