From: Hr. Dr. Schiedermeier*NIS* (schiedi@mch.sni.de)
Date: 10/08/93


From: schiedi@mch.sni.de (Hr. Dr. Schiedermeier*NIS*)
Subject: Re: SLS install problem
Date: 8 Oct 1993 08:13:36 GMT

Bos R (rbos@cs.vu.nl) wrote:

: I tried to install the linux filesystem by typing the
: following line:

: mke2fs -c /dev/hda2 90272

: this produced the following output:

: mke2fs 0.3, 93/04/22 for EXT2 FS 0.3a
: Block Log Size =0
: Fragment Log Size =0
: 22656 inodes
: 90272 blocks
: 4513 blocks reserved for root
: First data block=1 (1)
: Block size=1024
: 12 blocks groups
: 8192 blocks per group
: 8192 fragments per group
: 1888 inodes per group
: group = 11
: mke2fs: Unable to find a block for the inode table

: The last two lines appeared some time after the other
: lines.

: After these lines linux returned to the prompt.

: What has gone wrong?
For reasons I don't know you have to give a multiple of 1k = 1024
as size argument.

--Schiedi