I believe I've hit this bug again:
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2001-40/0208.html
I'm trying to create a 7.5 gigs partition on /dev/sda, over a aic7xxxx SCSI
controller [Adaptec 7892A (rev 2)]. Fdisk will create partition labels right,
but mke2fs dies (1.18 and 1.25 both) with "File size limit exceeded".
I'm running 2.4.14 vanilla, e2fsprogs 1.25, glibc 2.2.1, on a progeny debian
system (more or less potato).
Anyone can confirm the patch made it into 2.4.15?
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/home/clavoie# fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1115 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 33 265041 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda2 34 1081 8418060 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 1082 1115 273105 82 Linux swap
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/home/clavoie# mke2fs -v /dev/sda2
mke2fs 1.25 (20-Sep-2001)
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=4096 (log=2)
Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
1052480 inodes, 2104515 blocks
105225 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=0
65 block groups
32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
16192 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632
File size limit exceeded
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Christian Lavoie
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