On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 15:09, Masopust Christian wrote: > hi scot, > > it's a RAID5 with 8 x 400GB disks, so i'd expected a size of > appr. 2,8TB (Raid says it's about 2,6TB) but Fedora only see > exactly 2TB.... That should give you 3200GB raw and in raid 5 there will be about 12.5% (1/8 * 100) overhead or ~400GB. Which means you should get about ~2800GB of usable space. You will lose a little more when you format the partition. I did find this reference to a 2TB limit for block devices: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6238 Read almost at the bottom of the page. And this article that seems to indicate a patch for this is being worked on. http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0205.1/0423.html So it does appear that you may be hitting a kernel limitation on >2TB file systems. I recently did create a 1TB file system from four 300GB hard drives using LVM. No raid on this as I am not that concerned about this application. Using XFS file system and it is working very well. Used over 600GB on it so far. -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx Q: What's buried in Grant's tomb? A: A corpse.
