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Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 17:04:19 -0500
From: Justin Hibbits <jrh29@po.cwru.edu>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
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Subject: Re: LFS problems
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On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:53:58PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> I seem to recall that there was some silly bug wherein rlimits are applied to
> blockdevs.  The workaround was to run mkfs from a new root login shell,
> rather than from `su root'.  Because in the latter case, root inherited
> filesize limits.
> 

Yeah, I tried that and it didn't work.  Then I did a google search for the
error, and found that I have to set root's limits to unlimited, because for
some reason or another, they got messed up.  Now everything is working, I just
have to run 'unlimit filesize' whenever I want to format a partition or
anything.  Not sure what messed it up, but this is fine for now ;p

-Justin

-- 
Registered Linux user 260206


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