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From: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" <vs@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: reiserfs_create: no enough blocks on device
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 21:23:13 +0400
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To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
Cc: sankarshana rao <san_wipro@yahoo.com>, reiserfs-list@namesys.com

Hello

Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Aug 02, 2004  14:23 -0700, sankarshana rao wrote:
> 
>>I am trying to create a reiserfs filesystem using the
>>command 
>>'mkreiserfs  /dev/loop/0 100'.
>>It always gives me the error 
>>"reiserfs_create: no enough blocks on device".
>>
>>I tried altering the block size, but it would not
>>help..
> 
> 
> You can't make a reiserfs filesystem smaller than about 40MB.
> 
> Cheers, Andreas
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> Andreas Dilger
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Experimentally I found that the smallest size of reiserfs is 531 blocks. It will have 512 block of journal.

mkreiserfs-3.6.17 -s 512 /dev/hdb11 531