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Re: BIG disk woes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dirk Steinberg)
Tue Apr 18 18:00:20 1995
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 22:37:08 +0200
From: Dirk Steinberg <Dirk.Steinberg@gmd.de>
In-Reply-To: Alvin Starr <alvin@eyepoint.com>
"BIG disk woes" (Apr 17, 8:44am)
Reply-To: Dirk.Steinberg@gmd.de
To: Alvin Starr <alvin@eyepoint.com>, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
On Apr 17, 8:44am, Alvin Starr wrote:
> Subject: BIG disk woes
> I posted this question a while back but just as soon as I posted it my
> mail feed went away. So I never saw my question or any answers. So forgive
> the reposting.
>
> I have a 4GB scsi drive and am having a fun time partitioning it. Is there
> a place where I can look for info on how to set up the disk.
I had the same problems. Get the latest ext2-tools (0.5b I think).
They can make filesystems larger than 2 GB. I used
cfdisk for partitioning. Both fdisk and cfdisk cannot handle an
extended partition that starts beyond 2 GB, so watch out!
I assume that this is because these tools don't use llseek() as
does mke2fs or e2fsck.
> Thanks in advancd.
> --
> Alvin Starr || voice: (905)513-6717
> Eyepoint Inc. || fax: (905)513-6718
> alvin@eyepoint.com ||
>-- End of excerpt from Alvin Starr
Dirk
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