problem with 200GB hard drive

[Jim Cornette]

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.
> 
> 

With that much disk space to setup, have you tried this with FC2. I'm 
using FC3 testing and the version is e2fsprogs-1.35-9.5

The changlog is attached. It might do a better job with this size disk.

There seems to be significant differences between the older FC2 version 
and what is contained in this version. I had disk problems and there was 
some complaint that one of my filesystems waa created with a newer 
version of mkfs and could not be checked. This must mean that it does 
more than the earlier versions or in a different way.

I don't have a disk that large to work with. This is just something that 
might get the drives sized to your preferences.

Jim
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