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. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.26% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
