Ack. try installing or upgrading to redhat 6.1. can you make filesystems
with raid turned off? Can you use hardware raid instead?
On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, Barry K. Myrvold wrote:
> Need some help with a new server. Just purchased a dell poweredge
> server 2300 with RH6.0 pre-installed to use as our firm's file and print
> server. The machine came with five ~7 gig scsi drives with raid.
> When we looked at the file structure it had the usual RH
> partitions/directories except /home in about 2 gigs of space. We
> created a home partition with the remaining ~32 gigs and ran mkefs2 to
> create the file structure in it, but after writing about 1,200 to 1,800
> of the total of about 4,800 clusters, mkefs2 simply stalled out and
> stopped creating the file system. (The missing home partition in the
> original configuration was curious and makes me wonder whether or not
> the dell technicians who originally set up the server encountered the
> same problem and simply shipped it out that way hoping we might solve
> it, or is it normal to ship a linux server without a /home directory?)
> Is this a mkefs2 problem in that it only works on directories under a
> certain size or is it a problem with raid, or both?
>
> Occasionally sysrq would start the count up again but the file
> structure was never properly written. We also tried on a much smaller
> partition, e.g., 20 gig, and the same thing happened. We are now
> serving files on a barely adequate 5 gig home partition and losing the
> benefit of the other 27 gigs we purchased.
>
> If I can't get this fixed within the week, I may have to return this
> server to dell and go with a another server package like nt, or lose my
> job. Dell and Linuxcare, although responsive, have not been able to
> help us with this problem. Does anyone know what is going wrong?
>
> Desperately yours,
>
> Barry
>
>
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