Hi, Has anyone had problems partitioning and creating filesystems on a large HDD under a vanilla 2.4 kernel (2.4.10 in my case)? I have just installed a Maxtor 30GB drive as /dev/hdc. It is the secondary master and I am using it to backup my SuSE 7.0 system. I found that I could write the partition table and create a small ext2 partition for /boot plus 768MB of swap. Creation of the main ext2 filesystem on /hdc7 failed with "file size limit exceeded". The same problem recurred every time I tried - and I did try various combinations of partition size. I saw the same error message when trying to change some partition table flags. I have no file limits set in ulimit and I do not think that this is the problem. I eventually put the same drive as /dev/hdc in another box running a stock SuSE 2.2.16 kernel and creation of the filesystems completed without any problem. Any ideas ? Regards, Geoff _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com