Re: mke2fs and mount problem
Umm, the reason mount hangs is a bug in mount that I reported a while
back, and is supposed to have been fixed in a more recent package (I
don't know for sure, I haven't checked the latest package; 2.5-5 isn't
fixed, 2.5g-* should be.) The bug is that all the signals got masked,
and then a strcmp (to check the filesystem name) was done on a zero
pointer, so it spun taking segfaults until you kill -9'ed the mount. I
know the mount used in the first round of 1.1alpha boot disks is the
one with the bug, but assumed it would get updated in time...
The workaround is to explicitly mount -t ext2, which initializes the variable...
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