Re: e2fsprogs and 2Gb partitions

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 11 Jun 1998 12:32:42 +0100 (BST)

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> 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.

Thats strange. You don't say what driver you are using.

For reference

/dev/sda1 1012847 936321 24201 97% /
/dev/sda6 2985176 1902146 928663 67% /usr/src

Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 03 Lun: 00
Vendor: IBM Model: DCAS-34330 Rev: S65A
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02

2.1.105 #10 SMP Wed Jun 10 14:15:57 BST 1998 i586 unknown

Buslogic SCSI

and that seems to be behaving

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