On 11/06/2009 09:17 AM, Steve Campbell wrote:
Monty Shinn wrote:
On 11/06/2009 09:04 AM, Steve Campbell wrote:
I'm running a server with Centos 3 that I have set up a smbfs share to a Buffalo LinkStation. The LS has 4 drives configured with RAID 5. Each disk has 1 TB capacity, so the resulting drive is approximately 2.7 TB.
When doing a df, the result shows 2 TB, and no used blocks. Is there some setting I can change so that Centos sees and uses all 2.7 TB or does Centos 3 not support this?
Steve Campbell
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Setting the blocksize did the trick for me.
block size = 4096
This goes in the "services" section, not global.
i.e.:
[xx-01] comment = xx-01 path = /data-store valid users = xx read only = No block size = 4096
Hope this helps.
Monty
I had googled and found something about that setting, but....
Where exactly is this set? What file is that set in?
Thanks for the fast reply.
steve
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
It is set in the smb.conf file. It is located under /etc/samba/.
You will have to restart samba for the change to take place. Do that by issuing the following:
/etc/init.d/smb restart.
The setting is placed in the share definitions section, not in the global settings where server level definitions are placed.
See http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/smb.conf.5.html for more details.
excerpt:
block size (S)
This parameter controls the behavior of smbd(8) http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/smbd.8.html when reporting disk free sizes. By default, this reports a disk block size of 1024 bytes.
Changing this parameter may have some effect on the efficiency of client writes, this is not yet confirmed. This parameter was added to allow advanced administrators to change it (usually to a higher value) and test the effect it has on client write performance without re-compiling the code. As this is an experimental option it may be removed in a future release.
Changing this option does not change the disk free reporting size, just the block size unit reported to the client.
Default: //|block size|/ = |1024| /
Example: //|block size|/ = |4096|/
Hope this helps.
Monty