This wouldn't happen to be ONE file of size >4 GB would it?

ope, although the file system claims its 3.6 and namesys's webpage declares that file size limits are ludicriously large, on the order of a terrabyte because of the page cache. This actually matters because in the future I might be buying myself a TV capture card, where these things matter, as I suspect you know.

So, a bit of a status update. I did as BillC suggested and made a single partition 200GB in size. Strangely, I still get the same error =(

Slightly different df though (irrelevant parts cut out):

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 195352432 4124212 191228220 3% /mnt/reiser

Cfdisk displays a single partition of type Linux ReiserFS, which seems appropriate. This is getting a bit annoying, copying things back and forth to test a 4 gigabyte limit. I didn't bother messing with the block size this time, and just used a straightup 'mkfs.reiserfs /dev/sda1' And I still get no space left after about 4 gigabytes!

Justin Dugger