memory usage of mke2fs et.al. ?

[Michael S. Zick]

On Thu February 9 2006 10:21, Steven Scholz wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
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> 
> We experienced "out of memory" when formating 60GB on an emdedded system
> with on 16MB RAM.
>
With swapping enabled?

> 
> Now I wonder if the busyboxed version of the "Ext2 FS Progs" have been
> optimized in this respect?
>
No

> Can someone make a statement on memory usage of mke2fs?
>
Same, Same-o

> 
Perhaps you could sneak up on it...

Add a 'swap' partition to your 60g drive layout
mkswap on that partition
enable swapping
now mke2fs on the 60g(-) partition

Mike