Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Sep 2003 16:54:28 -0300 (BRT) | From | Marcelo Tosatti <> | Subject | Re: corruption with A7A266+200GB disk? |
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On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Erik Andersen wrote:
> On Tue Sep 02, 2003 at 02:28:16PM +0100, steveb@unix.lancs.ac.uk wrote: > > > > I just got a new 200GB disk (WDC WD2000JB) for my home machine (Asus A7A266, > > Ali chipset). I put some partitions on it like so: > > hda1: 100MB - /boot > > hda2: 8192MB - / > > hda3: 1024MB - swap > > hda4: the rest (about 190GB I guess) - /home > > > > I find that when I mkfs on /home, I get massive filesystem corruption on / > > When I fsck / (and restore the deleted files) I get massive filesystem corruption on /home. Luckily all my real data is still on my old disk... > > > > I reduced the size of /home to 40GB and everything was fine. > > I see the same behaviour with both 2.6.0test3 and 2.4.22. > > Known problem. For some reason Marcelo has not yet applied > the fix for this problem to the 2.4.x kernels...
So it seems the fix is already in 2.4.23-pre2 (came in through Alan IDE changes).
Steve, it seems 2.4.23-pre2 fixes your problem.
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