From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: Geoffrey Gallaway <geoffeg@sin.sloth.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Ramdisks and tmpfs problems
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 12:49:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CB345E4.16CE5C9C@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020409144639.A14678@sin.sloth.org>
Geoffrey Gallaway wrote:
>
> ...
> Originally I started playing with ram disks but when I try to create a new
> ramdisk with "mke2fs /dev/ram0 16384" mke2fs says:
> mke2fs: Filesystem larger then apparent filesystem size.
> Proceed anyway? (y,n) y
> Warning: could not erase sector 2: Invalid arguement
> Warning: could not erase sector 0: Attempt to write block from filesystem
> resulted in short write
> mke2fs: Invalid arguement zeroing block 16320 at end of filesystem
Try omitting the `16384' option - let mke2fs work out the
size.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-09 20:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-09 18:46 Ramdisks and tmpfs problems Geoffrey Gallaway
2002-04-09 19:49 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-04-09 21:18 ` Geoffrey Gallaway
2002-04-10 7:45 ` Sean Hunter
2002-04-10 15:31 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-04-10 10:45 ` Sean Hunter
2002-04-10 11:52 ` Christoph Rohland
2002-04-10 14:49 ` Sean Hunter
2002-04-10 11:01 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-04-10 14:23 ` Update - " Geoffrey Gallaway
2002-04-10 14:52 ` Sean Hunter
2002-04-10 15:01 ` Geoffrey Gallaway
2002-04-10 16:03 ` Sean Hunter
2002-04-11 11:03 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-04-11 15:47 ` Christoph Rohland
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