This is not strictly a 32-versus-64-bit issue, but I have to post it
somewhere on some SuSE support list.
I am trying to do an online upgrade to 11.2 from 11.1, as I explained in
my previous email. I used google to search the openSuSE support site,
but pages which are supposed to be in English come up in anything other
than English! For example, <
http://en.opensuse.org/Upgrade/11.2#Implementation > comes up in
Spanish, and < http://en.opensuse.org/Upgrade > comes up in German.
When I select "English" from the drop-down box named "Andere Sprachen"
(Other Languages), nothing happens. This is very-very frustrating.
Isn't the "en" in the beginning of the URL supposed to reference pages
in English?
I am not trying to insinuate that speaking a language other than English
is wrong,I am only trying to say that support should be neatly
categorized depending on language.
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We're trying to create a 27TB partition on openSUSE 11.2 x86_64 and seem
to be running into issues with e2fsprogs. Here's what happens:
> root/bebd1$ mkfs.ext4 -v /dev/sdd1
> mke2fs 1.41.9 (22-Aug-2009)
> mkfs.ext4: Size of device /dev/sdd1 too big to be expressed in 32 bits
> using a blocksize of 4096.
> root/bebd1$ uname -a
> Linux bebd1 2.6.31.5-0.1-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2009-10-26 15:49:03
> +0100 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
All hitherto posts related to this problem seem to indicate that the
underlying tools, such as mkfs itself, are still 32-bit even on a 64-bit
system and that fixing this is top priority. That was as of April 2009 -
is it possible that this issue has not been resolved yet?
Or, to be more specific: what do I need to do in order to create a 27TB
ext4 filesystem?
Thanks,
Martin
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Email: martin(a)rhm.de
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I guess this is not strictly a 64-bit question, but I have been posting
on this board since 2004.
I am on openSuSE 11.1, 64-bits, and I want to upgrade to 11.2. My
problem is that I have four partitions, /boot, /swap, /, and /home, of
which the last three are encrypted. If I remember correctly, here is how
I ended up with the current configuration:
Initially, I had normal ext3 partitions, but I was running out of hard
disk space. I got a bigger drive, which I connected to my computer (a
laptop) via USB2.0, which I fdisked to four partitions, of which I
encrypted the last three using luksFormat, created loopback devices with
'cyptsetup luksOpen', mounted them, created ext3 filesystems, and then
copied the data from the original (unecrypted) partitions. In GRUB, I
also issued kernel directives so, the kernel can at least find a root
file system. (Somehow, I cannot get the crypttab straight, the kernel
ignores it,and prompts me for the password for all three encrypted
partitions, and then I get a message that the encrypted partitions are
already assigned, but that's another story.) the system works
reasonably well.
When I tried to upgrade via an openSuSE 11.2 DVD, naturally, the DVD's
kernel could see the partitions, but displayed them as "unknown." How
can I get out of it? I am too hesitant to upgrade via 'zypper dup'.
Thank you in advance for your time.
CF
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