Re: mke2fs problem

[Christophe Andrieu]

Jim Pick wrote:
 
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  Hi,
 
  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...
 
  J. Goldman
 
 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.


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.
 

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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mke2fs problem

[andrieu]

I just tried to partition my new hdisk (Quantum bigfoot 4.3 Gb) but I faced the
following problem:
- I created a 2.0 Gb primary partition with fdisk (cylinders 1 to 255)
- When I created the partition with mke2fs /dev/hdb1, it failed creating the
  inode table with the following message:
Jul 29 23:27:07 bayes syslogd 1.3-0#15: restart.
Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel: Oops: 
Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel: CPU:0
Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel: EIP:0010:[find_candidate+212/244]
Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel: EFLAGS: 00010206
Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel: eax:    ebx: 01172ce4   ecx:    
edx: 001fa54c
Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel: esi:    edi: 01172ce4   ebp: 0400   
esp: 01172cac
Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel: ds: 0018   es: 0018   fs: 002b   gs: 002b   ss: 
0018
Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel: Process mke2fs (pid: 186, process nr: 29, 
stackpage=01172000)
Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel: Stack: 01172ce4  0400 0001 
 00124855 01dc3a98 01172ce4
Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel:0400 0001 0341 0001 
0400 0341 0007 0400
Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel:3218 035d 00124b9f 0341 
00124cce 0400 0001 0400
Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel: Call Trace: [refill_freelist+153/948] 
[getblk+47/936] [getblk+350/936] [block_write+519/1396] 
[free_area_init+269/432] [timer_bh+193/820] [timer_bh+248/820]
Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel:[do_bottom_half+59/96] 
[handle_bottom_half+11/32] [V2_block_getblk+87/388] 
[wake_up_interruptible+60/220] [n_tty_receive_buf+2799/2852] 
[timer_bh+193/820] [timer_bh+193/820] [timer_bh+248/820]
Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel:[do_bottom_half+59/96] 
[pty_write+365/380] [tty_default_put_char+30/40] [opost+440/456] 
[write_chan+247/400] [tty_write+221/304] [write_chan+0/400] [sys_write+271/328]
Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel:[do_bottom_half+59/96] 
[system_call+85/128]
Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel: Code: 8b 40 18 89 44 24 10 ff 0f 83 7c 24 10 00 
0f 85 38 ff ff ff

I'm using the following versions:
kernel: 2.0.30
e2fsprogs: 1.10-4

Has someone faced the same problem ?

TIA,

Christophe



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