From: byron@cc.gatech.edu (Byron A Jeff) Subject: Re: Making a filesystem larger than 64mb? Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1993 02:51:00 GMT
In article <1993Sep16.104136.19813@odin.diku.dk>,
Morten Krog <harpoon@diku.dk> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>
>How do I use mke2fs to create a filesystem larger than 64mb. I want to have
>a partition on my harddisk (size 75mb) installed with Linux, but I cannot
>format the partition. As I read the doc, mkfs is unable to do this but
>mke2fs should be able. I don't have mkefs so don't suggest that I use that.
>PLEASE help. Any help will be appriciated.
# mke2fs -c /dev/hda1 75000
should do the trick. Of course substitute the proper device and the proper #
of blocks for 75000.
The only thing that I can think of to prompt the question is that the old fdisk
complains about partitions over 64M. You can of course ignore this.
What exactly happens when you try to format the disk?
BAJ