Hi Chris, I had a problem like this. Officially Windows cannot handle single files greater that 2GB (or thereabouts). In practice, Win2K can fudge around this limit. However, when a RH7.3 system tried to copy such a file through a Samba mount of a Windows share, the size became effectively infinite and the copy only stopped when the 250GB disk was full. Hope this helps. Peter Smith (Ancient Newbie) -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Chris Sent: Saturday, 20 December 2003 5:49 PM To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: IDE hard drive blocks Hi guys, Please excuse this simple question, but is it possible (and safe to do so) to format large IDE drives better in RH, using smaller blocks? Here's the problem. I have a RH9 system that I use for some remote backups and have couple WD 120GB drives in it (/home2 and /home3) in addition to the boot drive, ie: three physical drives. The data I'm backing up is on remote servers all running SCSI RAID-5 and the total amount of disk space used on the server side is 46GB (as indicated by 'df'). A simple rsync to this remote RH9 system on IDE drives fails to back up 46GB worth of data to a single 120GB drive, it keeps running out of disk space. The only thing I can figure out is that the block size on the IDE drives is much larger and small files, say 1KB, take the full block, which is perhaps 64KB or maybe even bigger, and that's how a 120GB drive is "too small" to back up 46GB worth of data. Is my reasoning correct? If so, how can I find out what the block size is now on the IDE drives, and how can I reformat existing /home2 and /home3 drives with smaller block sizes using ext3 fs? Thanks, Chris -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
