Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[Fergus Wilde <fwilde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 27 October 2005 10:46, Fergus Wilde wrote:
> Don't think we have done this one recently, apologies if we have:
>
> Having run out of disk space on an external firewire 120 GB drive, I
> thought it would be fun to fit a bigger disk and installed a 400 GB drive
> into the enclosure. No dice, SuSE sees only 128GB of it. Explore, discover
> some enclosures appear to have limitations in this regard. Buy new
> enclosure, this one does USB2 & Firewire, and manufacturers rate it to 400
> GB.
>
> Use YaST partitioner to provide a single partition - success! Partitioner
> sees:
>
> /dev/sda1  372.6GB   Linux native /media/usbdisk  0 48640
>
>
> And the device appears to mount OK:
>
> # mount | grep sda
>
> /dev/sda1 on /media/usbdisk type subfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,sync,fs=reiserfs)
>
> So get on with rsync'ing data across, but it stops :-(  Why?
>
> # df /media/usbdisk/
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1            134202876 134201336      1540 100% /media/usbdisk
>
> So different parts of the system appear to have different views of the disk
> and partition concerned: YaST can see the 400GB disk, but the filesystem
> can apparently only see 128GB again? The machine has ide disks with
> partitions > 128GB without difficulty.
>
> Because it seemed to matter in some related discussions at lists.suse.com:
>
> # rpm -qa | grep hal
>
> hal-0.5.4-6.2
> hal-resmgr-0.1_SVNr59-2
>
> This phenomenon appears in the same way on two separate machines running
> SuSE 10. Anyone got a clue how to get the system to 'see' the remaining
> part of the disk in the same way the YaST partitioner appears to see it? I
> do realise that there may be hardware issues here, but it would be very
> interesting to hear from anyone who has a large external usb2 or firewire
> disk running successfully.
> Cheers
> Fergus