Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Apr 2002 17:18:27 -0400 | From | Geoffrey Gallaway <> | Subject | Re: Ramdisks and tmpfs problems |
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I tried that too, mke2fs says: mke2fs: Device size reported to be zero. Invalid partition specified, or a partition table wasn't reread after running fdisk, due to a modified partition being busy and in use. You may need to reboot to re-read your partition table.
This one time, at band camp, Andrew Morton wrote: > Geoffrey Gallaway wrote: > > > > ... > > Originally I started playing with ram disks but when I try to create a new > > ramdisk with "mke2fs /dev/ram0 16384" mke2fs says: > > mke2fs: Filesystem larger then apparent filesystem size. > > Proceed anyway? (y,n) y > > Warning: could not erase sector 2: Invalid arguement > > Warning: could not erase sector 0: Attempt to write block from filesystem > > resulted in short write > > mke2fs: Invalid arguement zeroing block 16320 at end of filesystem > > Try omitting the `16384' option - let mke2fs work out the > size. > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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