Re: 2.1.131 size limitations.

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 30 Dec 1998 11:53:05 +0000 (GMT)


> It appears as though mke2fs will not allow operation on a partition
> that exceeds about 3++ gigabytes. It errors out with "illegal request"
> messages.

I've made a 72gig ext2fs with 2.1.131. Are you sure its not a drive or setup
problem

> It also appears as though mkswap will not allow a swap partition in
> excess of about 128 megabytes.

You need a newer mkswap + 2.1.x to use big swap files.

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