Help - Cannot format large partition.

[Ion Badulescu]

On Sat, 22 Nov 1997, TST System Administrator wrote:

> I am trying to install RedHat 4.2 onto a Micropolis 1991 HD.  I have 
> three of these drives running now with no problems.  
> 
> When I install the software, there is no problem formatting partitions 
> under 1gig.  As soon as I try to go over 1 gig I get 
>     Couldn't get free page .....
> while trying to write the inodes using mke2fs -c /dev/sda3
> 
> If I try a larger partition, the SCSI bus just starts resetting and looping.
[...]
> Need to build a server with this drive ASAP and require any help or 
> pointers possible.

Compile 2.0.31 or 2.0.32 and run mke2fs under the new kernel. Due to bugs
in the memory management subsystem, 2.0.30 cannot handle mkfs or badblocks
on large partitions.


Ionut

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