Why is he brave, it is just a converted 2.4.15-pre5 with a change to the version number if I remember correctly that has a filesystem bug when you umount during a reboot. As long as he doesn't reboot and/or umount his data is save. :-) Kirby bzcat patch-2.4.15-to-2.5.0.bz2 diff -urN linux-2.4.15/Makefile linux-2.5.0/Makefile --- linux-2.4.15/Makefile Thu Nov 22 11:22:58 2001 +++ linux-2.5.0/Makefile Thu Nov 22 22:23:44 2001 @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ VERSION = 2 -PATCHLEVEL = 4 -SUBLEVEL = 15 -EXTRAVERSION =-greased-turkey +PATCHLEVEL = 5 +SUBLEVEL = 0 +EXTRAVERSION = KERNELRELEASE=$(VERSION).$(PATCHLEVEL).$(SUBLEVEL)$(EXTRAVERSION) Petro wrote: > On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 04:45:03PM -0600, John Moser wrote: > >>Is this specific to 2.4.X kernels? I'm running 2.5.0, and I just noticed >>that the 160 gig drives I was using are also partitioned at only 128Gigs. >> > > No, it's at the IDE driver level. There are patches to get around > this that are being considered for the mainstream kernel (Andrei H. > I believe). > > Brave man running 2.5.0, the dot-zero release of a development > kernel. > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com [mailto:linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com]On >>Behalf Of Andreas Dilger >>Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 4:18 PM >>To: linux-lvm@sistina.com >>Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] using 160GB IDE drives under linux with LVM. >> >> >>On Feb 07, 2002 22:33 +0100, Terje Kvernes wrote: >> >>> [ Re: IDE 128GB disk limits ] >>> >>> now, I've added SCSI-devices that where > 500GiB with ease into LVM, >>> but here I stumble. is there some easy solution out there that I've >>> missed? >>> >>> the box currently runs vanilla 2.4.16, only patched with LVM-1.0.1 >>> from 26/11. patches or anything people want to toss at this will be >>> highly appreciated. we have two of these beasts from Maxtor, and >>> stand to loose about 60GiB of space, which isn't all that neat. >>> >>This is a kernel IDE driver limit. You need to patch with Andre Hedrik's >>IDE patches to support IDE devices over this size. >> >>Cheers, Andreas >>-- >>Andreas Dilger >>http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ >>http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>linux-lvm mailing list >>linux-lvm@sistina.com >>http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm >>read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>linux-lvm mailing list >>linux-lvm@sistina.com >>http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm >>read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html >> > _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html