[BusyBox 0000764]: e2fsprogs is not working in 1.1.0

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http://busybox.net/bugs/view.php?id=764 
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Reported By:                Hyun
Assigned To:                BusyBox
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Project:                    BusyBox
Issue ID:                   764
Category:                   Other
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   block
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     assigned
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Date Submitted:             03-01-2006 19:10 PST
Last Modified:              03-08-2006 18:22 PST
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Summary:                    e2fsprogs is not working in 1.1.0
Description: 
all program from e2fsprogs(e2label, e2fsck, mke2fs) is not working in PPC.
I`m using ppc-405. and, crosscompiled busybox.

but, new version of busybox(1.1.0) does not read existing ext2 superblock.
so, I make new filesystem with mke2fs(from 1.1.0). but, it cannot be
mounted(kernel refuse).

after mkfs, e2label can read label successfully. but, cannot mount.

[relook400 /]$ e2label /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3
DG_DB1
[relook400 /]$ mount /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3 /var/data -t
ext2
VFS: Can't find ext2 filesystem on dev hda3.
mount: Mounting /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3 on /var/data
failed: Invalid argument
[relook400 /]$

is it endian problem ?
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 bwhissel - 03-08-06 09:11  
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busybox implementation of mkfs.ext2/mkfs.ext3 also fails on x86 systems
when building filesystems > 2050 Mbytes.  (Discovered while using GParted
LiveCD distro 0.2.2-1) 

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 vapier - 03-08-06 13:42  
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uhh, did you enable LFS ?  ive created ext partitions on 32bit arm machines
that were over 200gigs and i didnt have any trouble 

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 bwhissel - 03-08-06 14:14  
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Thanks for the tip: I've passed that back to the GParted LiveCD distro
folks. 

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 Hyun - 03-08-06 18:22  
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do you mean CONFIG_LFS?

below is a part of my .config file that was used to build.

#
# Build Options
#
# CONFIG_STATIC is not set
CONFIG_LFS=y
USING_CROSS_COMPILER=y
CROSS_COMPILER_PREFIX="powerpc-405-linux-gnu-"
EXTRA_CFLAGS_OPTIONS=""
# CONFIG_FEATURE_SUSv2 is not set
# CONFIG_FEATURE_SUSv2_OBSOLETE is not set

and, it has CONFIG_LFS.
ARM is running under BIG Endian? I don`t have experience on ARM chip. 

Issue History 
Date Modified   Username       Field                    Change               
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03-01-06 19:10  Hyun           New Issue                                    
03-01-06 19:10  Hyun           Status                   new => assigned     
03-01-06 19:10  Hyun           Assigned To               => BusyBox         
03-08-06 09:11  bwhissel       Note Added: 0001173                          
03-08-06 13:42  vapier         Note Added: 0001174                          
03-08-06 14:14  bwhissel       Note Added: 0001175                          
03-08-06 18:22  Hyun           Note Added: 0001176                          
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