Thats right. The 2TB limit can be overcome by using LVM. Kumaresh --- On Thu, 28/5/09, Tom Kearns <tkea@xxxxxxx> wrote: From: Tom Kearns <tkea@xxxxxxx> Subject: RE: size limit for root partion To: "General Red Hat Linux discussion list" <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thursday, 28 May, 2009, 11:28 PM I think the 2.6 kernel limits a filesystem size to 2TB ... but apparently there are ways to hack that limit. Tom >>> "Marti, Rob" <RJM002@xxxxxxxx> 5/24/2009 9:13 AM >>> To back up Ramakrishnan... [blah@foo ~]$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/md1 448G 171G 254G 41% / /dev/sda1 99M 23M 72M 24% /boot tmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /dev/shm Rob Marti Systems Administrator Sam Houston State University 936-294-3804 // rob@xxxxxxxx ________________________________________ From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ramakrishnan [ramakrishnan42@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Saturday, May 23, 2009 12:30 To: 'General Red Hat Linux discussion list' Subject: RE: size limit for root partion There is no size limit. I remember giving the whole of my 250 GB Hard disk to root file system excluding the swap space -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mohd Irwan Jamaluddin Sent: Saturday, May 23, 2009 10:27 PM To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Re: size limit for root partion On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 11:52 PM, Tech W. <techwww@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello, > > does linux (my kernel 2.6.24) has size limit for root(/) partion? I don't think so but having a 50GB for / is more than enough. > I have a 160G sata disk, want to do partions as: > > / ext3 50G > swap 2G > /data reiserfs (the left) > > > Is this suitable? > Thanks. > I recommend you to follow this guidelines, http://www.tldp.org/LDP/sag/html/alloc-disk.html http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Installation_Guide/s2-diskpartrecommend-x86.html -- 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 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list Bollywood news, movie reviews, film trailers and more! Go to http://in.movies.yahoo.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subjecthttps://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list