Re: new e2fsprogs & partitions > than 2gig?
Ben Pfaff writes:
> Juan Cespedes <cespedes@debian.org> writes:
> > On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Alexander E. Apke wrote:
> >
> > > Has someone tested the new e2fsprogs 1.10-6 to make sure it won't
> > > eat drives with partitions > than 2 gig. I am trying to be very carefull
> > > to make sure my drive doesn't get hosed by this problem.
> >
> > It doesn't work. Same behaviour as 1.10-4: it fails in all the
> > blocks above 2Gb (see Bug#13892).
>
> Is this only a problem with mke2fs? If I create a partition with the
> old mke2fs, can I check it with the new e2fsck? I ask because I just
> bought a machine with 3 UW SCSI 4.3 GB drives.
No, I think you shouldn't. The first problems were reported with e2fsck...
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