[ale] What is the largest volume possible?

[kaboom at gatech.edu (Chris Ricker)]

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?

You'll be fine.

[cricker at mooru cricker]$ df -h /export
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/VG0/export       972G  241G  683G  27% /export
[cricker at mooru cricker]$

that's LVM on top of RAID of large IDE disks

later,
chris