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Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 12:49:56 -0700
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To: Geoffrey Gallaway <geoffeg@sin.sloth.org>
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Subject: Re: Ramdisks and tmpfs problems
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Geoffrey Gallaway wrote:
> 
> ...
> Originally I started playing with ram disks but when I try to create a new
> ramdisk with "mke2fs /dev/ram0 16384" mke2fs says:
> mke2fs: Filesystem larger then apparent filesystem size.
> Proceed anyway? (y,n) y
> Warning: could not erase sector 2: Invalid arguement
> Warning: could not erase sector 0: Attempt to write block from filesystem
> resulted in short write
> mke2fs: Invalid arguement zeroing block 16320 at end of filesystem

Try omitting the `16384' option - let mke2fs work out the
size.
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