[ale] What is the largest volume possible?

Fri Sep 12 14:25:51 EDT 2003

On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Tony Rose wrote:

> I am looking for a cheap solution for a large storage box. If I put RH9 on a
> system that suppose, say a, 300GB drive and install it with ext3, will that
> be stable? If not, how big can I go? Does anyone have experience putting
> Linux on cheap drives this large?
>

As others have said, the OS can take it. But if that's a single IDE disk,
make sure your MoBo/IDE interface supports drives that big. For bigger
files than (I think) 2 gigs, you will need to do something special,
though.

	bjorn