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    DateMon, 8 Oct 2001 15:50:17 +0100
    From quintaq@yahoo ...
    SubjectProblem creating filesystems (and othe operations) under 2.4.10
    Hello,
    
    I am not subscribed to this list, so I would appreciate it if any replies
    could be cc'd to me.
    
    Is the following problem I have encountered symptomatic of a bug in 2.4.10?
    
    I have just installed a Maxtor 30GB drive as /dev/hdc in my SuSE 7.0 system
    which has a vanilla 2.4.10 kernel.  I found that I could write the
    partition table and create a small ext2 partition for /boot plus 768MB of
    swap.  Creation of the main ext2 filesystem on /hdc7 failed (before the
    inode tables even began to be written), with "file size limit exceeded".
    The same problem recurred every time I tried - and I did try various
    combinations of partition size.  I see the same error message when trying
    to change partition table flags.  The problem is identical using fdisk,
    cfdisk and parted.  I have no file limits set in ulimit and I do not think
    that this is the problem. 
    
    I eventually put the same drive as /dev/hdc in another box running a stock
    SuSE 2.2.16 kernel and creation of the filesystems completed without any
    problem.  I have also verified this by booting this box using SuSE's 2.2.16
    rescue kernel.
    
    Any ideas?
    
    Regards,
    
    Geoff
    
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