Re: maximum partition size



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On 03/09/08 17:38, hce wrote:
Hi,

What is the maximum partition size for an external HDD? I tried to use

The location of the drive is irrelevant.

one partition for a 250 G external HDD for a backup, the partition was

Bigger than 250GB, that's for sure! (I've got a 300GB Firewire
drive formatted as ext3.)

ok, but then the format process was stuck which caused my debian box
freeze. I cannot even turn my debian box off.

If you are on a network, see if you can ssh in from another box.

What does /var/log/syslog say?

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