Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261832AbTICBhl (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Sep 2003 21:37:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263916AbTICBhl (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Sep 2003 21:37:41 -0400 Received: from codepoet.org ([166.70.99.138]:16099 "EHLO winder.codepoet.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261832AbTICBhk (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Sep 2003 21:37:40 -0400 Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 19:37:41 -0600 From: Erik Andersen To: steveb@unix.lancs.ac.uk Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: corruption with A7A266+200GB disk? Message-ID: <20030903013741.GA1601@codepoet.org> Reply-To: andersen@codepoet.org Mail-Followup-To: Erik Andersen , steveb@unix.lancs.ac.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Operating-System: Linux 2.4.19-rmk7, Rebel-NetWinder(Intel StrongARM 110 rev 3), 185.95 BogoMips X-No-Junk-Mail: I do not want to get *any* junk mail. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1173 Lines: 28 On Tue Sep 02, 2003 at 02:28:16PM +0100, steveb@unix.lancs.ac.uk wrote: > > I just got a new 200GB disk (WDC WD2000JB) for my home machine (Asus A7A266, > Ali chipset). I put some partitions on it like so: > hda1: 100MB - /boot > hda2: 8192MB - / > hda3: 1024MB - swap > hda4: the rest (about 190GB I guess) - /home > > I find that when I mkfs on /home, I get massive filesystem corruption on / > When I fsck / (and restore the deleted files) I get massive filesystem corruption on /home. Luckily all my real data is still on my old disk... > > I reduced the size of /home to 40GB and everything was fine. > I see the same behaviour with both 2.6.0test3 and 2.4.22. Known problem. For some reason Marcelo has not yet applied the fix for this problem to the 2.4.x kernels... -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen http://codepoet-consulting.com/ --This message was written using 73% post-consumer electrons-- - 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/