Quote Originally Posted by Phatcat
II tried to create one for 10 MB. It worked.
Well that's good. So, the feature does work.

What concerns me is that the dmesg output suggests that /dev/hda1 is a FAT partition. Is that correct? If it is, that may be the problem. IIRC, FAT does not have support for large files (> 2 GB)

I'm also puzzled about the scanpartition output or lack thereof. scanpartitions should have reported what /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2 were, but didn't. Not sure why.

Try booting knoppix again and run this code in a root terminal, trying scanpartitions again:
Code:
( set -x
hdparm -d /dev/hda
fdisk -l /dev/hda
scanpartitions
cat /etc/fstab
) >& post.txt
Please post the output from post.txt

Regards,
- Robert
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