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From: "Mohammad A. Haque" <mhaque@haque.net>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: fdisk: "File size limit exceeded on fdisk" 2.4.10 to 2.4.13-pre6
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On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Alan Cox wrote:

> > The latter seems to be the case because Vita Samel (hope I got this right)
> > just reported that "Booting into 2.4.10-ac10" fixed the problem. Perhaps
> > it once was fixed and later defixed?
>
> Sounds like it. I'll have a look some point next week to see if I can see
> what is up

I'm able fdisk/mke2fs with 2.4.13-pre6 without the error so long as I
don't touch the device with hdparm.

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