Will Suse Linux Support Mounting a 500 gb Drive?

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#1

I know corruption can happen
to NTFS partitions above 250gb.
Does the same hold true for linux ext3
partitions. Another question if I add additional scsi drives to my server will the suse plugger in opensuse 11.1
automount it or do I manually edit fstab?
Getting more involved with Linux servers here
definitely interesting. Is Yasts Suse Partitioner the best tool to use to easilly partition newly added drives?

#2

I can tell you that I have a 1 TB hard drive as my main system drive and have no problems with corruptions.

If you use the drive partitioner in YAST, you can partition the hd and set automount points. I find that is the easiest way to partition the hd. I’m sure that there are other ways that are just as good and/or easy.

AFAIK, the hd will not be automounted without some sort of intervention. That is where the partitioner can help. You can set the mount point and it will add the appropriate fstab entries. You can set it to automount on start-up etc as well.

#3

Is the 1TB drive an external drive?
like a San drive?:slight_smile:

#4

The 1TB drive is an internal. This is on my desktop machine, not a server. It is connected through SATA.

#5

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Agreed… ext3/reiserfs/xfs have all worked for me with terabyte-sized
drives. wikipedia has a filesystem comparison page showing filesystem
size limits and all of the above support more disk space than you have
(regardless of how much you have).

Good luck.

cybertaz wrote:
> I can tell you that I have a 1 TB hard drive as my main system drive and
> have no problems with corruptions.
>
> If you use the drive partitioner in YAST, you can partition the hd and
> set automount points. I find that is the easiest way to partition the
> hd. I’m sure that there are other ways that are just as good and/or
> easy.
>
> AFAIK, the hd will not be automounted without some sort of
> intervention. That is where the partitioner can help. You can set the
> mount point and it will add the appropriate fstab entries. You can set
> it to automount on start-up etc as well.
>
>
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