Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Feb 2001 15:50:14 +0000 | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Subject | Re: ext2: block > big ? |
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Hi,
On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 05:44:02PM -0700, Brian Grossman wrote: > > What does a message like 'ext2: block > big' indicate?
An attempt was made to access a block beyond the legal max size for an ext2 file. That probably implies a corrupt inode, because the ext2 file write code checks for that limit and won't attempt to write beyond the boundary.
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