Re: Large filesystems

[Niels Möller]

Jon Arney <jarney1@cox.net> writes:

> I'm running into a problem, however, when I mount (set translator for)
> one of the filesystems.

> Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hdc1              2015984    739996   1173580  39% /hurd
> /dev/hdc2              5039592   1605844   3177744  34% /hurd/src
> /dev/hdb1               958977    703747    205690  78% /mnt/hdd1

There's a known limitation in the ext2 translator at about 1GB, so you
are not supposed to be able to mount your first two ext2 partitions
under the hurd at all, which should be mentioned in any Hurd FAQ. But
I think you would get errors when the translator is first activated,
before you get the chance to access files on it.

So what you report seems quite odd to me. Can you describe exactly
what you do, and what error messages you get?

You should be able to mount larger filesystem via NFS from a remote
machine, though.

/Niels