[plug] Large file systems.

[Tamara Thompson]

where is your root filesystem?  where are you booting from?

..."BIOS limits the number of cylinders to 1024, and any partition using cylinders numbered above this won't be accessible from the BIOS.  As far as Linux is concerned, this affects only booting; once the system has booted you should be able to access the partition.  Your options are to either boot Linux from a boot floppy, or boot from a partition using cylinders numbered below 1024.  "   
from Running Linux, Matt Welsh and Lar Kaufman (O'Reilly)

Hope this isn't totally useless info.

Tamara



>>> "Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima" <tony at cantech.net.au> 08/25 5:55 PM >>>
Hello all,
	I would think that this question is aimed at the other Linux system
admins out there BUT I welcome all to comment.

I have just purchased a new server that is destined to run squid. :)

This machine has a 9.1Gb SCSI ultra-2 drive (that is destined for the cache).
and a 4.5Gb ultra-2 drive for the system and nntpcache.

I habe the machine running quite nicly BUT it whinges about block size.

I get :
VFS: Wrong blocksize on device 08:11
ll_rw_block: device 08:11 only 1024-char blocks implemented (1026)

Ocasionally.  I get this message on both drives (0801 and 0811).  When I get
it on /dev/sda1 I also get a kernel panic :(.

Is the a problem with the driver (5.1.0pre7 ... I needed support for the
Adaptec 7890 chipset) or the filesystem (did I used the wrong parameters to
mke2fs ????)

Yours Tony.