Actually, I've done this before with other file systems. Ext2 & Ext3 work (you receive a warning) VFAT and MSDOS won't work XFS will work without warnings Other file systems I need to test. But I think I already did something like this with reiserfs before. Omar PS. Didn't want to post in HTML was this stupid outlook. -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alexander Dalloz Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 10:10 AM To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: RE: Disk Array > 2TB Am Mi, den 29.09.2004 schrieb Omar Castañeda Acosta um 17:43: > Forget about using parted. I just went and make the filesystem straight into the device. > mkfs.xfs -L /home -f /dev/sdb > Now df correctly reports 2.6 TB: > /dev/sdb 2685296640 528 2685296112 1% /home > /dev/sdb 2.6T 528K 2.6T 1% /home Hm, no partition used but the device /dev/sdb? How is that working? Is xfs special in that way? Alexander P.S. Please post in plain text and not html formatted to this list. Thanks. -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG key 1024D/ED695653 1999-07-13 Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 (Tettnang) kernel 2.6.8-1.521smp Serendipity 18:06:40 up 8 days, 20:10, load average: 0.38, 0.58, 0.61
