Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 10:50:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 10:50:23 -0400 Received: from smtp011.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.173.31]:53003 "HELO smtp011.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 10:50:08 -0400 X-Apparently-From: Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 15:50:17 +0100 From: quintaq@yahoo.co.uk To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Problem creating filesystems (and othe operations) under 2.4.10 Reply-To: quintaq@yahoo.co.uk X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.6.2 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20011008145018Z276906-760+22140@vger.kernel.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello, I am not subscribed to this list, so I would appreciate it if any replies could be cc'd to me. Is the following problem I have encountered symptomatic of a bug in 2.4.10? I have just installed a Maxtor 30GB drive as /dev/hdc in my SuSE 7.0 system which has a vanilla 2.4.10 kernel. I found that I could write the partition table and create a small ext2 partition for /boot plus 768MB of swap. Creation of the main ext2 filesystem on /hdc7 failed (before the inode tables even began to be written), with "file size limit exceeded". The same problem recurred every time I tried - and I did try various combinations of partition size. I see the same error message when trying to change partition table flags. The problem is identical using fdisk, cfdisk and parted. I have no file limits set in ulimit and I do not think that this is the problem. I eventually put the same drive as /dev/hdc in another box running a stock SuSE 2.2.16 kernel and creation of the filesystems completed without any problem. I have also verified this by booting this box using SuSE's 2.2.16 rescue kernel. Any ideas? Regards, Geoff _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com - 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/