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From: Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
To: steveb@unix.lancs.ac.uk
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: corruption with A7A266+200GB disk?
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 19:37:41 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030903013741.GA1601@codepoet.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E19uBCi-00054b-00@wing0.lancs.ac.uk>

On Tue Sep 02, 2003 at 02:28:16PM +0100, steveb@unix.lancs.ac.uk wrote:
> 
> I just got a new 200GB disk (WDC WD2000JB) for my home machine (Asus A7A266,
> Ali chipset). I put some partitions on it like so:
>   hda1:   100MB - /boot
>   hda2:  8192MB - /
>   hda3:  1024MB - swap
>   hda4:  the rest (about 190GB I guess) - /home
> 
> I find that when I mkfs on /home, I get massive filesystem corruption on /
> When I fsck / (and restore the deleted files) I get massive filesystem corruption on /home. Luckily all my real data is still on my old disk...
> 
> I reduced the size of /home to 40GB and everything was fine.
> I see the same behaviour with both 2.6.0test3 and 2.4.22.

Known problem.  For some reason Marcelo has not yet applied 
the fix for this problem to the 2.4.x kernels...

 -Erik

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-09-03  1:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-02 13:28 corruption with A7A266+200GB disk? steveb
2003-09-02 21:55 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-09-03  0:55 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-09-03 13:35   ` Alan Cox
2003-09-05  9:43     ` Steve Bennett
2003-09-05 11:42       ` Dave Gilbert (Home)
2003-09-03  1:37 ` Erik Andersen [this message]
2003-09-03 18:07   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-09-03 18:27     ` Alan Cox
2003-09-03 19:54   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-09-03 20:06     ` Erik Andersen

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