Storage drive problems

[Bill Cavalieri]

On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 18:23 -0500, 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:

fdisk /dev/sda

What is the fs type and size of partition.  From the looks of it, you
prolly don't have a linux partition.

My backup server has 4 200g sata drives (3ware raid controller), and
ReiserFS, never an issue with it.  We use ReiserFS for all our servers,
company and customer.

-Bill