Subject: Re: Can't seem to make ext2 filesystem on 7200
From: Sean O. Denney (sdenney@cise.ufl.edu)
Date: Sat Nov 11 2000 - 21:05:07 MST
I don't know if this is still an issue w/ linux, but I remember that
partitions greater than 2GB were hard for linux to handle. You can
have many many partitions, but they had to be limited to 2GB or less.
Try making swap 128MB, / 2GB, and /home 1.872GB.
--- Sean Denney
On Sat, 11 Nov 2000, Mike Warwick wrote:
> >> (1) If I chose not to format the root partition, I get the error message
> >> "Mount failed: Invalid argument."
> >
> > I just had this error re-installing, and the problem is that the kernel needed
> > to be rebooted to pick up the new partition map.
> >
> >> (2) If I chose to format the root partition, I get the message "Making ext2
> >> filesystem on sdb6," and the installer appears to hang. (I let it run for
> >> 10 hours and it never completed.)
> >
> > This could also be consistant with that problem.
> >
> > Try rebooting and NOT altering your partition table.
>
>
> Yes, I did it exactly as you described. I created the partitions, wrote the
> partition map, backed out of the installer, rebooted, skipped partition
> editing the second time, and still got the error.
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