Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 8 Oct 2001 15:50:17 +0100 | From | quintaq@yahoo ... | Subject | Problem creating filesystems (and othe operations) under 2.4.10 |
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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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