Re: Formatting a 4GB Partition

[nam@nazgul.ecs.umass.edu]

: 
: Hello,
: 
: I tried to install Debian 1.1 on a 4GB Partition using the kernel 2.07
: with NCR8010 Support. The disk is a Quantum Atlas.
: After writing 255 inodes on disk the formatting stopped with
: the message "Can't resolve symbol llseek".
: 
: Does anybody know if the formatting should work in general
: and what goes wrong in this special case ?
: 
: It would be nice if could also you mail me directly because I could
: only read possible answers in the maillist archive ...
: 
: bye, Karsten <karsten@ppp.net>
: 

  I had the same problem with Conner 4207S and here's the reply from
  Ted when I asked the same question to him a while back.

> Sounds like an incompatibility between the libc used to compile mke2fs
> and the libc on your boot disk. If you recompile mke2fs, or upgrade
> the shared libraries on your system, this probably should go away.  

> What version of shared library are you using on your system?  llseek
> has been included in libc for quite a while....

  Does this mean Debian e2fsprogs-1.02-1 should be upgraded to 1.04
  or should be rebuilt at least with new libc5 ?

  At that time, my trick was using fdisk v2.1(>4GB) and mke2fs(v0.5b)
  under slackware-2.3 setup menu to successfully format 4gb single
  partition.

  Hope this helps,
  Joownoo

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Joonwoo Nam
MAGNUMS(MAssachusetts Group for NUMerical analysis of Semiconductors)
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UMASS at Amherst
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