Re: e2fsprogs and 2Gb partitions

German Jose Gomez Garcia (mat006@pinon.ccu.uniovi.es)
Thu, 11 Jun 1998 10:55:21 +0200 (METDST)

Well, I'm not using any distro, I compiled everything from scratch,
although dir struct maybe "Slackwarish". I'm using glibc-2.0.7pre3 and
GCC 2.8.1, and of course I was using the last version of e2fsprogs I
found on the net (I'm not sure but maybe 1.10?). And using kernel 2.1.102
in an all scsi system with an IBM 4.1 Gb UW, booting from it with lilo
*will* trash any partition greater than 1.9 Gb, I mean e2fsck will try to
access far beyond the end of the device and will trash all data.

Somebody told me he has the same problem, and he has found a later
version (something with WIP suffix) which solves it. Anyway I would try
again today (I *really* wish you are right :) I will post the results (I
hope from a not trashed HD :) tonight.

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