Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 11:56:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 11:56:11 -0400 Received: from newssvr17-ext.news.prodigy.com ([207.115.63.157]:13008 "EHLO newssvr17.news.prodigy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 11:55:57 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: not-for-mail Newsgroups: linux.dev.kernel Subject: Re: fdisk: "File size limit exceeded on fdisk" 2.4.10 to 2.4.13-pre6 In-Reply-To: Organization: TMR Associates, Schenectady NY From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test75 (Feb 13, 2001) Originator: davidsen@deathstar.prodigy.com (Bill Davidsen) Lines: 63 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.168.192.240 X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net X-Trace: newssvr17.news.prodigy.com 1004025387 000 192.168.192.240 (Thu, 25 Oct 2001 11:56:27 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 11:56:27 EDT Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 15:56:27 GMT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In article , Mohammad A. Haque wrote: | On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Tim Tassonis wrote: | | > I'm quite suprised, but this actually worked for me. Rebooted without | > using hdparm, created the partintion (3GB) and everything seems ok. Looks | > as if hdparm is doing something wrong here (v3.6). | > | | More than likely it's just triggering something that causes the problem. I haven't seen any problem, either. Certainly not with fdisk, this is what I see: ================================================================ bilbo:root> hdparm -V hdparm v3.9 bilbo:root> df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda3 995896 849248 95240 90% / /dev/hda4 4597818 2727382 1639502 62% /extra /extra/u_local 193687 74214 109473 40% /usr/local /dev/hde1 4079656 3611952 262908 93% /extra2 bilbo:root> fdisk /dev/hde The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 39770. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/hde: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 39770 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hde1 1 8127 4095976+ 83 Linux native /dev/hde2 8128 28445 10240272 83 Linux native Command (m for help): q ================================================================ I certainly have used hdparm on that drive, my controller comes up in ATA33 by default, and I run # enable the ATA/66 hard drive(s) # experiment with -u1 after backup hdparm -d1 -X66 /dev/hde out of rc.local to get it going. BP6 m/b, dual Celeron500, Linux bilbo 2.4.10-ac7-2 #5 SMP Sun Oct 7 08:03:37 EDT 2001 i686 unknown from the uname. This is NOT a preempt kernel, the patch against this one blew up on SMP, although it booted "nosmp" just fine. I have trying again with 2.4.13-pre6 this weekend. Don't know if this sheds light on the topic, I certainly do run fdisk on "drives" my RAID controller creates which have 600GB or so broken into little 100GB files. -- bill davidsen His first management concern is not solving the problem, but covering his ass. If he lived in the middle ages he'd wear his codpiece backward. - 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/