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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