problem with 200GB hard drive

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 13 September 2004 11:47, Jim Patterson wrote:
>I am trying to install a 200GB hard drive and I can run fdisk and
> create the partition and then run mkfs.ext3 and format the
> partition, but whenever I try to mount the partition I get an error
> "to many files mounted or bad block on file system".  If I decrease
> the size of he partition to 140GB then I can mount it, increase to
> 160GB and then I can't.  If I create one partition 130GB and
> another partition 70GB then I can mount both.
>Any ideas what could be causing this,  I thought that if a computer
> had a problem with 137GB hardrives it simply wouldn't allow
> creation of a 200GB partition.
>This is on a Fedora Core 1 system.

This problem will probably go away if you update to FC2.  I just 
installed a 200GB drive here, all except the first 2GB as one 
partition for amanda to kick the sand around in.  The first 2GB is my 
swap.

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