From: BARTMANN@rog-sfb.rog.rwth-aachen.de (Michael Bartmann) Subject: Re: mke2fs problem: unable to find a block for the inode table Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1993 06:26:07 GMT
In article <C5Jx14.6u9@news.claremont.edu> michael@jarthur.claremont.edu (Michael Elkins) writes:
>What exactly are the requirements for this to happen? I remember when I
>initially installed linux on my system that I had real problems getting
>mke2fs to like my partitioning scheme. Now that I've decided to ditch
>DOS altogether, I was trying to make another partition, but I can't use
>the partition that I made.
>
>Can anyone tell me what the correct "parameters" (so to speak) are for making
>an ext2 filesystem??
>
>Thanks,
>me
I had the same problem with a 114750 blk partition,
I fiddled around a bit with smaller sizes, and
mke2fs finally succeded with
mke2fs /dev/hda3 114700
and didn't care about loosing 50 blks.
Hope this helps,
Michael
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