lacie "big disk and rh 7.3 SOLVED

[Rick Stevens]

chuck lawrence wrote:
> chuck lawrence wrote:
> 
>> I spoke too soon.  72gb in, and it froze again.  I'm going to try an 
>> even larger number of inodes.  I wish I knew the right number.  anyone 
>> got any scientific strategies?
> 
> 
> the inode max seems to be near what I used previously, 120m.  I tried 
> 240m, and it got set to 122m.  anyone know?  the command again was 
> "mke2fs -N 240000000".

I thought you said your previous setting was 12m.  There may be a limit
on the size.  A quick calculation does show that's a 4k inode size (my
math yesterday must've been off).

> also, the freezing behavior might be related to bad memory.  it now 
> refuses to boot, with or without the disk, and using different kernels, 
> and displays what appear to be memory errors.  I'll run a memory diag 
> tomorrow.

Ah, it's possible.  I've found a good utility CD is the "Ultimate Boot 
CD" (http://ubcd.sourceforge.net).  Lots of good diagnostics and some
nifty recovery stuff.
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