Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261186AbTIYNYP (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Sep 2003 09:24:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261190AbTIYNYP (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Sep 2003 09:24:15 -0400 Received: from dsl-212-23-25-139.zen.co.uk ([212.23.25.139]:15836 "EHLO butternut.transitive.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261186AbTIYNYO (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Sep 2003 09:24:14 -0400 Message-ID: <3F72EC23.6070403@treblig.org> Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 14:22:43 +0100 From: "Dave Gilbert (Home)" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Norris, Brent" CC: "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" Subject: Re: 128G Limit in Reiserfs? Or the Kernel? Or something else? References: <9A8F8D67DC8ED311BF3E0008C7B9A0ADBAA86E@E151000N0> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-TL-MailScanner: Found to be clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 917 Lines: 21 Norris, Brent wrote: > I seem to have hit an odd limit, that I didn't think existed. I have a 250G > WD IDE hard drive that I have just installed. Since I couldn't put a Ext3 > filesystem on it (mount wouldn't recognize it) I decided to put a ReiserFS > filesystem on it. Since I have done that I have added 128G of data to the > drive. Now when I attempt to copy more data to it I get an error that there > is no more space on the drive. Reiser can definitly do larger file systems than that (I have a Reiser file system with over 300GB on). Its worth trying a df -i to make sure you haven't run out of inodes - but then you say you can create empty files. Dave - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/