Re: mke2fs problem
Jim Pick wrote:
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> > Hi,
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> > >From what I hear, there's a serious problem with that version of e2fsprogs
> > (at least fsck) which may be affecting your new file-system. Also, I
> > believe that 2 Gigs is the limit on a Linux filesystem's size so perhaps
> > that's causing you problems as well...
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> > J. Goldman
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> As someone who lost my 2.5GB partition - I'd be careful about making a
> ext2fs partition (using the unstable distribution) that is > 2GB until
> the glibc/e2fsprog bug is fixed.
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I first used the e2fsprogs in the stable distribution (compiled against
libc5) but it
failed. I tried with a 1 Gb and a 500 Mb partition and it failed. It
only succeeded
with a 100 Mb partition. I also tried checking for bad blocks. The
checking went OK
and it failed when writing the inode table.
> Oh yeah - don't make your partitions too large on your boot disk -
> or lilo won't be able to use them to boot the kernel.
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I already have a 2 Gb partition as my boot disk on another system. I
don't remember if
I was using Debian 1.2 or 1.3 when I created this partition.
Christophe
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