From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <37DEC8E8.33EB2D66@tiac.net> Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 18:15:04 -0400 From: Timothy Wall MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Hollis R Blanchard CC: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: missing space on ext2fs scsi drive References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: I'm running a 604e (PowerCenterPro 180) with 128 Mb RAM, 128Mb swap. The root partition is on either a 4Gb or 8Gb disk (I think it's on the 8Gb). I've run mke2fs sans arguments w/o problems, but on smaller disks (I've got an 8, a 4, a 2, and a 0.7Gb). Hollis R Blanchard wrote: > > Yeah. The problem (I hear) is that just running mke2fs on a large hard drive > from the installer will lock up machines will less than very large amounts of > RAM. Although now that I think about it, if you're able to run mke2fs by hand > and it works fine, maybe there really isn't a problem. What are your system > specs, and can you run mke2fs sans arguments without problem? > > -Hollis ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/