Storage drive problems

[Charles Steinkuehler]

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Justin Dugger wrote:

| I brought this up around noon today on IRC, but I guess everyone was
| out to lunch =).  I've recently formatted my shiny new SATA drive as
| ReiserFS, to try out a few new filesystems out.  Since it was a 200GB
| drive, and I plan to use it mostly for storing large files, I thought
| it might be a bit faster if I used a larger block size, I used 4096
| (although I'm not sure what the default is, at the time I assumed it
| was 1024).  If you're interested in specific hardware details, I've
| attached the output from the program lshw.  Beware that it isn't
| entirely accurate; one part I've noticed that's wrong is the socket
| type on my CPU.
|
|  Anyways, my problem and reason for posting this is that I can't seem
| to store more than about 4 gigs on the drive. I can't create or move
| files to the drive.  Example:
|
| jldugger at jldugger:~ $ mv lshw /mnt/reiser/
| mv: writing `/mnt/reiser/lshw': No space left on device
|
| Some extra diagnostic information:
| jldugger at jldugger:~ $ df
| Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
| /dev/hda1              9410184   7957780    974388  90% /
| tmpfs                   518296         0    518296   0% /dev/shm
| /dev/sda             195355016   4126812 191228204   3% /mnt/reiser
|
| jldugger at jldugger:~ $ du -sh /mnt/reiser
| 4.0G    /mnt/reiser
|  So, any ideas?

I suggest using jfs.

If you're wondering what your problem with reiser is:

- - Why did you format /dev/sda instead of partitioning the drive?

- - Exactly what format command did you use?  Are you sure you didn't make a
4G reiser fs on a 200G 'partition' (/dev/sda)?

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Charles Steinkuehler
charles at steinkuehler.net
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