From: nsyslaw@straylight.acs.ncsu.edu (lou Williams) Subject: Re: weird fdisk on slackware bootdisk Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1993 13:29:05 GMT
Robert Cooper (cooper@s1.elec.uq.oz.au) wrote:
: bf703@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Patrick J. Volkerding) writes:
: >In a previous article, pit@gccs.imp.com (Peter Berger) says:
: >>
: >>What I'm interested in now, is what fdisk is this? (I mean from
: >>what package? So I can avoid ever trying this version...).
: >>
: >Have other people experienced trouble with this version of fdisk?
: Well I don't know if this is an fdisk problem or a mke2fs
: problem, but after creating partitions greater than 70MB
: I was unable to format them, kept saying can't find block
: for inode table....
I had this same problem as well. However, I found that by INCREASING
the partition size by 1 meg worked well. I started making /dev/hdb2
at 120M for /usr and had the above problem. So, I deleted /dev/hdb2 and
recreated the partition at the same starting block, but increasing it
by 1meg to 121 meg. All worked fine afterward.
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