Fw: mke2fs under kernel 2.1.126

Harry Ronis (ronis@cloud9.net)
Mon, 2 Nov 1998 12:44:09 -0500

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> From: Harry Ronis <ronis@cloud9.net>
>>
> Need to create multiple 1 to 2 gig partitions on maxtor 11 gig drive.
> Created an ext2 partition of 1.4 gig. Issued the following:
> mke2fs -v /dev/hda3 1400000. Appeared to be going ok until block 850000
> where
> the following message kept coming out repeatedly:
>
> writing inode table
> Writing inode tables: 0/ 104Warning: could not write 8 blocks in
> inode table starting at 8: Attempt to write block from filesystem
> resulted in short write
> Warning: could not write 8 blocks in inode table starting at 16: Attempt
> to write block from filesystem resulted in short write
> Warning: could not write 8 blocks in inode table starting at 24: Attempt
> to write block from filesystem resulted in short write
> Warning: could not write 8 blocks in inode table starting at 32: Attempt
> to write block from filesystem resulted in short write
> Warning: could not write 8 blocks in inode table starting at 40: Attempt
> to write block from filesystem resulted in short write
>
> Environment is PII/400 running kernel 2.1.126. I cut the partition down
> to 800 meg
> issued the mkes2fs and it worked. Anything above a gig yields the above
> message.
>
> Distribution is RH 5.1 .
>
> Any ideas??
>
> Thanks!!
>
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> Linux ext2 filesystem format
> Filesystem label=
> 212992 inodes, 851445 blocks
> 42572 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
> First data block=1
> Block size=1024 (log=0)
> Fragment size=1024 (log=0)
> 104 block groups
> 8192 blocks per group, 8192 fragments per group
> 2048 inodes per group
> Superblock backups stored on blocks:
> 8193, 16385, 24577, 32769, 40961, 49153, 57345, 65537, 73729,
> 81921, 90113, 98305, 106497, 114689, 122881, 131073, 139265, 147457,
> 155649, 163841, 172033, 180225, 188417, 196609, 204801, 212993, 221185,
> 229377, 237569, 245761, 253953, 262145, 270337, 278529, 286721, 294913,
> 303105, 311297, 319489, 327681, 335873, 344065, 352257, 360449, 368641,
> 376833, 385025, 393217, 401409, 409601, 417793, 425985, 434177, 442369,
> 450561, 458753, 466945, 475137, 483329, 491521, 499713, 507905, 516097,
> 524289, 532481, 540673, 548865, 557057, 565249, 573441, 581633, 589825,
> 598017, 606209, 614401, 622593, 630785, 638977, 647169, 655361, 663553,
> 671745, 679937, 688129, 696321, 704513, 712705, 720897, 729089, 737281,
> 745473, 753665, 761857, 770049, 778241, 786433, 794625, 802817, 811009,
> 819201, 827393, 835585, 843777
>
> Writing inode tables: 0/ 104Warning: could not write 8 blocks in inode
> table starting at 8: Attempt to write block from filesystem resulted in
> short write
> Warning: could not write 8 blocks in inode table starting at 16: Attempt
to
> write block from filesystem resulted in short write
> Warning: could not write 8 blocks in inode table starting at 24: Attempt
to
> write block from filesystem resulted in short write
> Warning: could not write 8 blocks in inode table starting at 32: Attempt
to
> write block from filesystem resulted in short write
> Warning: could not write 8 blocks in inode table starting at 40: Attempt
to
> write block from filesystem resulted in short write
> Warning: could not write 8 blocks in inode table starting at 48: Attempt
to
> write block from filesystem resulted in short write
> Warning: could not write 8 blocks in inode table starting at 56: Attempt
to
> write block from filesystem resulted in short write
> Warning: could not write 8 blocks in inode table starting at 64: Attempt
to
> write block from filesystem resulted in short write
> Warning: could not write 8 blocks in inode table starting at 72: Attempt
to
> write block from filesystem resulted in short write
> Warning: could not write 8 blocks in inode table starting at 80: Attempt
to
> write block from filesystem resulted in short write
> Warning: could not write 8 blocks in inode table starting at 88: Attempt
to
> write block from filesystem resulted in short write
> Warning: could not write 8 blocks in inode table starting at 96: Attempt
to
> write block from filesystem resulted in short write
> Warning: could not write 8 blocks in inode table starting at 104: Attempt
> to write block from filesystem resulted in short write
> Warning: could not write 8 blocks in inode table starting at 112: Attempt
> to write block from filesystem resulted in short write
> Warning: could not write 8 blocks in inode table starting at 120: Attempt
> to write block from filesystem resulted in short write
> Warning: could not write 8 blocks in inode table starting at 128: Attempt
> to write block from filesystem resulted in short write
> Warning: could not write 8 blocks in inode table starting at 136: Attempt
> to write block from filesystem resulted in short write
> Warning: could not write 8 blocks in inode table starting at 144: Attempt
> to write block from filesystem resulted in short write
> Warning: could not write 8 blocks in inode table starting at 152: Attempt
> to write block from filesystem resulted in short write
> Warning: could not write 8 blocks in inode table starting at 160: Attempt
> to write block from filesystem resulted in short write
> Warning: could not write 8 blocks in inode table starting at 168: Attempt
> to write block from filesystem resulted in short write
>

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