On Nov 09, 2006 12:14 +0530, Raghu Ni wrote: > We have a server with about 6x750Gb SATA drives setup on a hardware RAID > controller. We created hardware RAID 5 on these 6x750GB HDDs. The effective > size after RAID 5 implementation is 3.4TB. This server we want to use it as > a data backup server. > > Here is the problem we are stuck with, when we use fdisk -l, we can see the > drive specs and its size as 3.4TB. But when we want to create two different > partitions of 1.7TB each, then we get the error "out of range" while > specifying cylinders. > > And if we go for one single partition of 3.4TB, mke2fs returns error when we > format the partition for ext3 file system and after some specific duration > it exits with a error "Inodes not found... " similar errors. Don't use a partition at all. Just make the filesystem directly on the whole device (e.g. mke2fs /dev/sda). Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc. _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
