I wrote earlier about tomsrtbt failing to build even when there was clearly enough space on the floppy. I originally thought that tomsrtbt would not build in loopback partitions, but others reported having successfully built tomsrtbt using this method. I have since found that tomsrtbt *will* build on the loopback device, but only when using the Minix file system. I have *never* gotten tomsrtbt to build successfully using ext2 on the loopback device. I believe tomsrtbt fails to build when: Using file systems with more than 2^16-1 (65535) inodes. For a default ext2 file system this means that tomsrtbt will not build on partitions of greater than 268,435,456 bytes. Building tomsrtbt in an ext2 file system on the loopback device. I'm curious to hear what other people's experience has been. Does your experience building tomsrtbt agree with/contradict my theory?
