problem with 200GB hard drive

Carlos Alberto Alves drcaa at ig.com.br
Wed Sep 15 23:25:13 UTC 2004


Jim Patterson wrote:

> I am trying to install a 200GB hard drive and I can run fdisk and create 
> the partition and then run mkfs.ext3 and format the partition, but 
> whenever I try to mount the partition I get an error "to many files 
> mounted or bad block on file system".  If I decrease the size of he 
> partition to 140GB then I can mount it, increase to 160GB and then I 
> can't.  If I create one partition 130GB and another partition 70GB then 
> I can mount both.
> Any ideas what could be causing this,  I thought that if a computer had 
> a problem with 137GB hardrives it simply wouldn't allow creation of a 
> 200GB partition.
> This is on a Fedora Core 1 system.
> 
> 
Maybe you have to update motherboard BIOS. Try looking MB website for 
updates dealing with large HD's.
HTH,
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