Re: Ext2fs bug going updating debian package

[Jeff Bailey <jbailey@nisa.net>]

On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 02:01:14PM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > After I updated from hurd_19990425-1.deb to hurd_19990517fixed.deb, I 
> > wound up with the following problem immediately after it initialized the 
> > swap partition:
> > 
> > ext2fs: hd0s4: panic: main: superblock won't fit on the device!
> > 
> > Reverting to 0425 works fine.  I then compiled it myself, and had the 
> > same problem (With a checkout from anoncvs today)
> 
> Does it really?  That is, can you access all parts of the disk?

I don't think I've ever filled the partition - This is what df under 
linux shows me for it:

Filesystem         1024-blocks  Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/hda2            3044019 2547456   339126     88%   /
/dev/hda4             878478  567372   265723     68%   /gnu
/dev/hda1            2100360 1788172   312188     85%   /mnt/fat32-cdrive

where /gnu is the hurd partition.  Do you want me to fill it, and see if 
it takes out the system?  Would a loop creating 10 byte files work?

I've tried a couple times to get my Linux partition mounted, but I've 
never succesfully convinced it to do so - So I've never tried *really* 
stressing the size limit.

Tks,
Jeff Bailey

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