Re: 2.5.5-pre1 File size limit exceeded in fdisk on extended partitions

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 18 Feb 2002 19:30:03 +0000 (GMT)

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> After changing extended partition type on sda or sdb (1 Gig
> or 2 Gig partition) and attempting to write partition table, fdisk exits with File
> size limit exceeded error message.

Known problem. The 2.4 fixes for this are not yet in 2.5 for some reason.
Fdisk it and mkfs in 2.4 and it should fine mounted to play with in 2.5
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