[root@archive root]# df -m Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2 39370 5997 31374 17% / /dev/sda1 981 25 906 3% /boot /dev/sda5 187200 18929 158762 11% /home /dev/sdb1 1884920 366436 1480185 20% /mnt/storage none 1933 0 1933 0% /dev/shm the partition is ext3... I just created it, didn't do anything special... joelja On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Bill Gradwohl wrote: > How does one go about getting a partition larger than 1TB? > > I've got a 3Ware Escalade with 12 250G drives. I've installed all the > regular OS files & directories on 2 of those drives mirrored as RAID 1. That > works fine. > > Id' like to use all but one of the remaining drives as a single large > partition on RAID 5 (9 drives - useable capacity of 8 = 2TB). > > The last drive is a hot spare. > > The Escalade 8506 has a 2TB limit, and it will set up the RAID 5 at 2TB. > However, FC1 won't partition past 1TB. > > What are my options? Will FC2 help? > > The use of that 2TB space is for SAMBA, to store large CAD drawings. > > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Jaeggli Unix Consulting joelja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx GPG Key Fingerprint: 5C6E 0104 BAF0 40B0 5BD3 C38B F000 35AB B67F 56B2