Re: error mounting empty file as disk with MOL

[Nicolas Bertolissio <nico.bertol@free.fr>]

Selon Joe Malik <news.malik@gmx.net>:

> On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 02:00:51PM +0100, Nicolas Bertolissio wrote:

> > So I have created a 3GB file with (home/ has an ext3 filesystem):
> >      dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/mol/macosx bs=3k count=1M
> > This file is not mounted when I try to start MOL.

> > It starts well and I get the Mac OS X install utility, but the Disk
> > Utility shows a disk with 0 byte capacity instead of the expected
> > 3GB.
> > 
> > I've got the following error on the console when MOL mounts the
> > disks:
> > ----- MOL console
> >     <No SCSI Device>
> > 
> >     CD   /dev/cdrom       CDROM          <read-only>   ------ BOOT1
> > fstat: Value too large for defined data type
> > fstat: Value too large for defiend data type
> >     Disk /home/mol/maco..                <rw>  ------
> > ----- MOL console
> > 
> > How can I find which value is too large and what the maximum value
> > is?
> > 
> 
> Hi Nicolas,
> 
> you need to create a filesystem on the file. Use 'hformat <file>' to
> do
> this. The hformat binary is in the hfsutils-package.

# hformat /home/mol/macosx
hformat: /home/mol/macosx: error opening medium (File too large)

3GB is too much for ext3?


Nicolas