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Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 12:16:26 -0500 (EST)
From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: "Mohammad A. Haque" <mhaque@haque.net>
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Subject: Re: fdisk: "File size limit exceeded on fdisk" 2.4.10 to 2.4.13-pre6
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On 25 Oct 2001, Mohammad A. Haque wrote:

> On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, bill davidsen wrote:
> 
> > 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
> > ....
> >
> > 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.
> 
> I guess it was unclear at first. You'll only get the error when you run
> mke2fs.

I still am missing this, obviously after I partition the drive I do mke2fs
so I can use the partition. I don't see what sequence you follow which
triggers this, can you clarify?

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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