On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 05:26:40PM -0900, Adam Shand wrote: > > i'm sure this is a faq but i can't find the answer so i'm hoping someone > here can give me a quick pointer to the right direction. > > i just got done installing slink on a 13Gb maxtor drive. my /var (where i > like to keep everything) is just over 10Gb.
I won't ask why, but you should probably follow the fhs standard or you might break things. > when i boot it hangs on the message: > > /dev/hda3 on /var/ type ext2 (rw) > > i'm assuming that this is a problem with large partitions on 2.0.36 kernels > but i can't get the damn thing mounted to upgrade the kernel. I don't recall what the limit is, but with a large partition that may contain many small files, you're likely to run out of inodes. And that's no fun. I'd suggest breaking up var into smaller partitions: /var, /var/spool, /var/lib and /var/cache for instance. Larger partitions also have longer fsck times. You might try booting into single user mode, then see if you can mount the partition -- there may be some other reason why it hangs. For instance, if you used a new version of mkfs you might have made a filesystem that is incompatible with the older kernels. Also, their may be an issue with addressing >8GB drives -- does the kernel report the ``correct'' geometry at boot (C/H/S)? -- +----------------------------------------------------+ | Eric G. Miller egm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | +----------------------------------------------------+
