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From(Alan Cox)
SubjectRe: e2fsprogs and 2Gb partitions
DateThu, 11 Jun 1998 12:32:42 +0100 (BST)
> found on the net (I'm not sure but maybe 1.10?). And using kernel 2.1.102
> in an all scsi system with an IBM 4.1 Gb UW, booting from it with lilo 
> *will* trash any partition greater than 1.9 Gb, I mean e2fsck will try to
> access far beyond the end of the device and will trash all data.

Thats strange. You don't say what driver you are using.

For reference

/dev/sda1            1012847  936321    24201     97%   /
/dev/sda6            2985176 1902146   928663     67%   /usr/src       

Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 03 Lun: 00
  Vendor: IBM      Model: DCAS-34330       Rev: S65A
  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 02     

2.1.105 #10 SMP Wed Jun 10 14:15:57 BST 1998 i586 unknown

Buslogic SCSI

and that seems to be behaving


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