Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264423AbTICTzO (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2003 15:55:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264409AbTICTxr (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2003 15:53:47 -0400 Received: from mikonos.cyclades.com.br ([200.230.227.67]:41741 "EHLO firewall.cyclades.com.br") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264362AbTICTwC (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2003 15:52:02 -0400 Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 16:54:28 -0300 (BRT) From: Marcelo Tosatti X-X-Sender: marcelo@logos.cnet To: Erik Andersen Cc: steveb@unix.lancs.ac.uk, Subject: Re: corruption with A7A266+200GB disk? In-Reply-To: <20030903013741.GA1601@codepoet.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1250 Lines: 32 On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Erik Andersen wrote: > 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... So it seems the fix is already in 2.4.23-pre2 (came in through Alan IDE changes). Steve, it seems 2.4.23-pre2 fixes your problem. - 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/