From: marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier) Subject: Re: EXT2FS FAQ (Was Re: A ton of questions) Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1993 19:08:26 GMT
card@masi.ibp.fr (Remy CARD) writes:
> You can safely ignore this warning for the root file system. Note that it
> is a good idea to run e2fsck on the fs.
What is the best way to do an (e2)fsck on the root file system?
my understanding is that the best way to do it on any file system is unmounted,
but of course you can't unmount the root file system :)
>Q: I have tried to create an ext 2 file system with mke2fs and it dies with
> 'Out of memory'. What is the problem ?
>A: The problem comes from mke2fs itself. mke2fs eats lots of memory to create
> a file system since it creates a memory copy of the inode table. The
> problem has been fixed in recent versions (0.2c+ or above). Note that
> e2fsck still has the same problem.
I have 0.2c installed (is there one newer?) and tried to mke2fs a
250Meg partition yesterday, and after 30 minutes, it still didn't do anything.
Then I realized that I forgot to 'swapon -a' after booting up (had hard drive
problems, so only had the root partition mounted in fstab). After turning swap
back on, it ran without a problem. I have 8meg of memory, and 8Meg of a swap
partition.
I've almost converted all my file system sto the ext2 fs...looking forward
to seeing more utilities for it, like a defragger :))
great work everyone...the more I use, the more I'm happy with changing from
my old commercial system :)
marc