Need some help with a new server. Just purchased a dell poweredge
server 2300 with RH6.0 pre-installed to use as our firm's file and print
server. The machine came with five ~7 gig scsi drives with raid.
When we looked at the file structure it had the usual RH
partitions/directories except /home in about 2 gigs of space. We
created a home partition with the remaining ~32 gigs and ran mkefs2 to
create the file structure in it, but after writing about 1,200 to 1,800
of the total of about 4,800 clusters, mkefs2 simply stalled out and
stopped creating the file system. (The missing home partition in the
original configuration was curious and makes me wonder whether or not
the dell technicians who originally set up the server encountered the
same problem and simply shipped it out that way hoping we might solve
it, or is it normal to ship a linux server without a /home directory?)
Is this a mkefs2 problem in that it only works on directories under a
certain size or is it a problem with raid, or both?
Occasionally sysrq would start the count up again but the file
structure was never properly written. We also tried on a much smaller
partition, e.g., 20 gig, and the same thing happened. We are now
serving files on a barely adequate 5 gig home partition and losing the
benefit of the other 27 gigs we purchased.
If I can't get this fixed within the week, I may have to return this
server to dell and go with a another server package like nt, or lose my
job. Dell and Linuxcare, although responsive, have not been able to
help us with this problem. Does anyone know what is going wrong?
Desperately yours,
Barry
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