Re: df incorrectly handles volumes > 4TB

[Joshua Hoblitt]

Filesystems > 4TB have been working for me and I do have a couple of hosts with
filesystems > 2TB that are displayed correctly by df. eg.

--
/dev/root_volume/backup
                       3.5T   1.6T   1.9T  45% /backup
--

However, none of my systems have CONFIG_LPD set so I'll give it a try.

-J

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On Fri, 31 Dec 2004, Andreas Schwab wrote:

> Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Most likely, then, the bug is not in "df" itself.  I'd look for bugs
> > in the underlying C library, or operating system, or file system, etc.
> > 4.5 TB is just over 2**30 * 4096 bytes, so perhaps your file system
> > can't handle more than 2**30 blocks for some reason.
> 
> <http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html> says that Linux 2.4.x or Linux
> 2.6.x without CONFIG_LPD can only handle block devices/file systems of 2TB
> maximum on 32 bit platforms.
> 
> Andreas.
> 
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