> RHEL4 /should/ be able to handle a filesystem that large, however I'm not > sure if it's ever actually been tested. I'd be very interested to know the > results.
certainly will post the results and how i got there. > I am somewhat surprised that fdisk isn't choking on it, then again you > haven't tried to actually change anything. If you do need to muck with the > partition table, I'd suggest trying parted if fdisk chokes. fdisk will actually let me delete and create a partition. i am trying to create the partition and make it's fs with parted now. > Had you actually tried to put an ext3 filesystem on it with RHEL4? ext3 under > RHEL4 can theoretically go up to 8TB. GFS on RHEL4 (when released) should be > able to go much higher, as well. Did try with mke2fs, ala mkfs.ext3 and the result was always a 1.4 tb fs. Thanks, Paul -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
