Is there a partiton size limit?

[don fisher]

Norberto Bensa wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 7:15 PM, don fisher <hdf3 at comcast.net> wrote:
>> I will post progress when I get somewhere. I have tried to build a new
>> kernel from the online source, but it will not boot. The screen goes by
> 
> have you tried mkfs.ext3 -b 4096 as I posted earlier?
> 
The output from the suggested command is listed below, flowed by the df 
of the mounted still 2TB file system.

sudo mkfs.ext3 -b 4096 /dev/sda1
mke2fs 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008)
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=4096 (log=2)
Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
134217728 inodes, 536870202 blocks
26843510 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=0
Maximum filesystem blocks=4294967296
16384 block groups
32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
8192 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
         32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 
2654208,
         4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872, 71663616, 
78675968,
         102400000, 214990848, 512000000

Writing inode tables: done
Creating journal (32768 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done

This filesystem will be automatically checked every 22 mounts or
180 days, whichever comes first.  Use tune2fs -c or -i to override.


df
/dev/sda1             2.0T  199M  1.9T   1% /usr1
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