Re: new e2fsprogs & partitions > than 2gig?
On 19 Oct 1997, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> Juan Cespedes <cespedes@debian.org> writes:
> > On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Alexander E. Apke wrote:
> >
> > > Has someone tested the new e2fsprogs 1.10-6 to make sure it won't
> > > eat drives with partitions > than 2 gig. I am trying to be very carefull
> > > to make sure my drive doesn't get hosed by this problem.
> >
> > It doesn't work. Same behaviour as 1.10-4: it fails in all the
> > blocks above 2Gb (see Bug#13892).
>
> Is this only a problem with mke2fs? If I create a partition with the
> old mke2fs, can I check it with the new e2fsck? I ask because I just
> bought a machine with 3 UW SCSI 4.3 GB drives.
I don't know it the problem is also in mke2fs. I was talking
about `e2fsck'. `e2fsck' version 1.10-6, as well as version 1.10-4,
may *destroy* your partition if you use it.
On 20 Oct 1997, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> That's a trivial bug, the prototype for llseek is missing in glibc.
Well, I don't think this can be called a `trivial bug', even if
the fix is trivial. It's still a *critical* bug, which needs to be
fixed ASAP.
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Juan Cespedes
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