Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261509AbVECMxy (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 May 2005 08:53:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261510AbVECMxy (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 May 2005 08:53:54 -0400 Received: from zproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.162.193]:65092 "EHLO zproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261509AbVECMxw convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 May 2005 08:53:52 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=QdMTOqU3J1mly4NVmAuZ/CJe9xhUVBr/5qn5OoDTZqp+3ScViTIIHHAe2h/v/DHegPVZv6TJjiWhP+SzHzHThtnSUSjn8jc5faEtD4JrVv3Z6BvtR/Bh9b7hSwvRgyeuSVD5s/jpgRnkpn16UJNK/MJUYQu1KUPSFgicZuuMsQs= Message-ID: Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 20:53:52 +0800 From: Christopher Chan Reply-To: Christopher Chan To: Davy Durham Subject: Re: ext3 issue.. Cc: linux-kernel In-Reply-To: <427770C9.1050808@davyandbeth.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <4270FA5B.5060609@davyandbeth.com> <427770C9.1050808@davyandbeth.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1036 Lines: 21 Hi Davy. On 5/3/05, Davy Durham wrote: > I was thinking about delving into this problem a bit. I don't have any > unpartitioned free space on my physical drive. I was going to ask if > it's possible to create a virtual device in RAM or in a file that I > could then create an ext3 file system on for testing.. I'm at least > trying to recreate the situation of the negative diskspace usage.. then > maybe try to debug ext3 a bit. At first I thought "oh RAMFS!", then "no > wait, I couldn't create an EXT3 file system that way".. I need a > non-physical (block? or character?) device. It is called a ram disk. You might want to pass options to the kernel to increase the size of the ramdisk. Look under Documentation for ramdisk.txt in the linux source tree. - 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/