Jim Pick wrote: > > --==_Exmh_2089790933P > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > > 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 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .