On May 12, Bob McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There's nothing in any of the installation documentation that I can > remember that warns me about any of this. I suppose this could be > considered a documentation bug? I agree with Kay that this should be considered a bug in the program used to create the file system.
> As mentioned in my response to Kay Sievers, so far as I know this system > had never had any other operating system than Linux installed. It's a > Dell server originally purchased with Red Hat 7.0 or 7.1 installed at > the factory. This could of course be part of the problem, in that the > tools used by that OS are relatively old. It's not something I'd > considered, prior to hearing from Kay. It may had a FAT file system on it, I understand that some hard disks get one in the factory. Our mke2fs should probably have overwritten the beginning and the end of the partition anyway. > The "tool I used to create the filesystem" is whatever it is that's in > the basic Debian etch net install. I have no idea what tool is actually > run, in this case. Can you provide a pointer or two, as to who I should > contact or what package is involved? I suggest you discuss this with the e2fsprogs maintainer, Theodore Ts'o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. -- ciao, Marco
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