On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 09:41, Gene Heskett wrote: > 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 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. Mount Type Partition PercentCapacity Free Used Size /home ext3 /dev/hda2 18% 139.66 GB 32.87 GB 181.77 GB hda: WDC WD2000JB-75DUA0 (Capacity: 186.26 GB) Are you mounting the correct partition? This is on an old RH8 box. -- Ow Mun Heng Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 on D600 1.4Ghz CPU kernel 2.6.7-2.jul1-interactive Neuromancer 11:30:04 up 3:24, 8 users, load average: 0.58, 1.02, 1.12
