[BusyBox] mke2fs seems broken - false alarm

walter harms wharms at bfs.de
Wed Jun 15 17:11:00 UTC 2005


even when its normaly not needed, if its not working for larger 
partitions it may point to an other problem that need fixing.
and even ebedded systems have today large drive e.g. for data storage,
e.g. even for our system you can add a memorystick (1GB) and them ?

re,
	walter


Tito wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 June 2005 14:58, walter harms wrote:
> 
>>'use the source luke',
>>i would prefer a #ifdef CONFIG_LFS inside the source.
>>it eases debugging (i can compile it standlone) and ppl
>>do not need to grep all files to find configs.
>>
>>re,
>>	walter
> 
> Hi,
> The only problem with this is that I have no idea where
> in the source and what should be #ifdefed.
> BTW maybe this is related to the size
> of the partition to format. 
> I was able to format a floppy but had this trouble
> with a bigger partition:
> 
> /dev/hde2             112G   33M  107G   1% /mnt/disc2
> 
> The "turn it on by default" would be the easiest way
> but most people don't need to format such big
> partitions on embedded systems,
> so a notice in the help section of the config
> system IMHO is the best solution.
> 
> Ciao,
> Tito
> 
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