Huge Partition

[Martin Stone]

Actually I'm not sure if I've ever filled up the disk that much... I'm doing 
your 1 GB files test now, kaking about 10 seconds per 1GB and I have about 380 
GB to fill up, so I figure in about an hour I'll have some results... So, when 
yours failed, what did it say?

Bill Gradwohl wrote:
> The testing I started yesterday afternoon completed, and I'm sorry to say
> the result is a failure.
> 
> Although parted created a 2TB partition as verified by fdisk, only 1TB is
> useable. I wrote 1001 files of just slightly under 1G each when the script
> failed for out of disk space. The script simply used the cp command to copy
> a single master file to FILE.XXXX where XXXX is an increasing number.
> 
> I tried googling for disk space limits, but got too many bogus hits to be of
> value. 
> 
> Does anyone know what the "official" disk space limits are? 
> Does anyone know what I need to do to get a single partition of greater than
> 1TB?
> I have a test platform with 2TB of physical disk if someone can point me in
> the right direction to recompile whatever. 
> 
> Martin:
> 
> If you have a 2TB partition, have you tested it for availability beyond 1TB?
>