Is there a partiton size limit?

don fisher hdf3 at comcast.net
Tue Mar 17 20:23:03 UTC 2009


Norberto Bensa wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:55 PM, don fisher <hdf3 at comcast.net> wrote:
>> 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
>                                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> If you do the math, you'll get 16TB.
> 
> 
>> df
>> /dev/sda1             2.0T  199M  1.9T   1% /usr1
> 
> Maybe a bug in df?
> 
I did the math, 536870202*4096=2.1990203e12, or 2TB. Am I missing 
something? I do not understand the relation between the claimed 
"Maximum" = 4294967296 blocks and the allocated = 536870202 blocks.

don

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