From: kooper@dutiws.twi.tudelft.nl (Rob Kooper) Subject: Re: EXTfs-2 Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1993 08:38:04 GMT
In article <SCT.93Mar25161628@garay.dcs.ed.ac.uk> sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Stephen Tweedie) writes:
>In article <C4Fn0M.Bsz@cscns.com>, rico@cscns.com (Rico Alonso) writes:
>
>> Hi guys,
>
>> I have been bugged by this problem I've been encountering with Linux-extfs.
>> To start with , here is my hardware configurations:
>> 486DX-33
>> 4M Ram
>> 162M HD
>> - Now, I Re-BOOTed and used 'mke2fs' to create the file-system. I typed:
>> 'mke2fs -c /dev/hda2 75624 '
>> ...
>> out of memory
>> killed
>
>The mke2fs program needs to create the inode tables on the partition;
>old versions of mke2fs created the whole table in memory, which takes
>up quite a lot of space. From Remy Card's ext2fs FAQ:
I had the same problem at home. I too have only 4Mb but I have 4Mb swapfile.
You do need this swapfile if you're planning to use X11. Just turning this
swapfile on solved my problem.
Good luck
Rob
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