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Re: Harddisc formating



On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 23:03, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 10:47:12AM +0100, Hakan Kuecuekyilmaz wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > yesterday I tried to repartition and format my 40GB Harddisc but
> > for partitions >2GB it says:
> > 'File size limit exceeded'
> > 
> > I tried with a Sun Disklabel, with Dos Label, logged in via ssh, made su -
> > logged in as root, tried ext2 and ext3, - still same error.
> > 
> > I have a UltraSparc10 with debian/sid 2.4.17 running. Is this a kernel
> > related 'feature', because the disc was running with a 40GB partition on 
> > ext3 before yesterday.
> 
> I've no idea why you are getting this. At home, I have a 36gig ext3
> partition (Ultra30). For Debian's archive server (Ultra60) we have a
> ~250gig ext2 partition.
> 
> Exactly how are you trying to do this? What program are you using?

Hi Ben,

following things:

logged in via gdm as user into gnome
opend a gnome-terminal
typed 'su -'
then
'fdisk /dev/hdb'
typed 'o' (kernel does handle it)
maked some partitions:

/dev/hdb1             1     10403   5243080+  83  Linux
/dev/hdb2         10404     14516   2072952   83  Linux
/dev/hdb3         14517     17637   1572984   83  Linux
/dev/hdb4         17638     77545  30193632   83  Linux

then
if I type mke2fs -j /dev/hdb1
it says: 'File size limit exceeded'

if I type mke2fs -j /dev/hdb3
everything goes fine

same behavior with sun disclabel

if i type 'ulimit -c unlimited'
it says after mke2fs -j /dev/hdb1
'File size limit exceeded (core dumped)'

any hints?

regards
-- 
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