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Re: df incorrectly handles volumes > 4TB
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Joshua Hoblitt |
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Re: df incorrectly handles volumes > 4TB |
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Thu, 20 Jan 2005 16:16:05 -1000 (HST) |
I believe that "CONFIG_LPD" must be a typo as it doesn't exist as an option.
The author probably meant "CONFIG_LBD", which enables large block device
support. All of my systems are already built with 'CONFIG_LBD".
I'm going to try posting this issue to the ext-users list.
-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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