From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 21:20:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 21:20:33 -0500 Received: from asbestos.brocade.com ([63.121.140.244]:60485 "EHLO mail.brocade.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 21:20:21 -0500 Message-ID: <3A9C6184.9050802@brocade.com> Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 18:25:08 -0800 From: Amit D Chaudhary User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i686; en-US; 0.8) Gecko/20010215 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: mke2fs hangs while running on /dev/loop0 - kernel version 2.4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, I am hoping someone knows more about this case. I have a intel pc running linux 2.4 and the last command below hangs and the statements as they are printed. Even kill -9 does not get it to terminate. #touch img.test #dd if=/dev/zero of=img.test bs=1k count=2000 2000+0 records in 2000+0 records out #losetup /dev/loop0 img.test #mke2fs mke2fs 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 Filesystem label= OS type: Linux Block size=1024 (log=0) Fragment size=1024 (log=0) 256 inodes, 2000 blocks 100 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user First data block=1 1 block group 8192 blocks per group, 8192 fragments per group 256 inodes per group Writing inode tables: done ...... Thanks Amit