[geeks] Linux filesystem size limit?

[Phil Brutsche]

On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 15:03, Al Potter wrote:
> OK folks....
> 
> I'm building a LARGE fileserver for a friend, and have a little over 3/4 
> terabyte in the drive array on a dual 1800+ Athlon with 1GB of ram.

Linux has no problems creating file systems that large.

Have you tried loggin in as root on the console, then creating the file
system?

su'ing to root has caused some people trouble, especially if they've
used ulimit to limit how big of a file a certain user can create.

-- 

Phil