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Re: new e2fsprogs & partitions > than 2gig?



On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, Richard Jones wrote:

> I agree, after following the libc6 howto which states that 1.10-5 was
> ok, I assumed 1.10-6 would also be ok, silly me, I killed about 500 meg
> of files during an fsck.  Furthermore e2fsck was unable to restore to
> the partition to anything less than chaos.  I reverted to a 3 year old
> e2fsck which seems to have fixed things (except for the 500 meg which is
> now sitting in lost+found, fortunately it was mostly package source). 
> Something as nasty as this should be fixed as well as some prominent
> notices about how the existence of the problem. 

First thing, WRAP YOUR LINES.  I'll make mention of this in the next
release of my HOWTO, due out any time now, whenever I get time to fix it
up at home.

-- 
Scott K. Ellis <storm@gate.net>                 http://www.gate.net/~storm/


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