On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, james wang wrote: > Dear All, > > I have recently bought a PC with 120 GB had drive. > Windows XP was the operation system. I did see all > the space - 120 GB and it worked fine. > > I deleted all the paritions already on the hard drive > and tried to install RedHat 6.2 on it. No matter what > I tried, I could just use 1/4 of the hard drive (about > 30 GB). If trying to create a partition with larger > size, it always ended up with - "inode out of bounds" > and thus failure in installing the operating system. > > I had also tried to create 4 primary partitions, each > with 30 GB. I did manage to install the system. > However, the happiness only lasted a short while - > once rebooted, the file system seamt corrupted (need > fsck). > > Reading through Google news groups, I learnt that > RedHat 6.2 with kernel versison 2.2.14 can handle > large disk size (> 34 GB). However, I own experience > told another story - it seams that RedHat 6.2 could > NOT handle hard drive size above 34 GB! > > Would you gurus shed a light on this? I am no guru but 6.2 is ancient. How about trying something more current. I know 8.0 can handle 120 Gig drives. Besides what does this have to do with ext3. Ext3 did not come with 6.2. I do not think it was invented/stable yet. AFAIK 2.2.x kernels cannot do ext3 without patches. HTH, -- .............Tom "Nothing would please me more than being able to tdiehl@rogueind.com hire ten programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software." -- Bill Gates 1976 We are still waiting .... _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
