Re: mke2fs (and mkreiserfs) core dumps

[Andreas Dilger]

On Jun 11, 2002  02:01 +0000, [e-mail] wrote:
> I am exeperiencing the similar problem in kernel
> 2.4.18, glibc 2.2.5, and patched gcc 2.95.3
> (http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/glib-linux-archive/0110/0
> 007.html).
> 
> Both of the following commands
> 
> mke2fs /dev/md0
> mke2fs -j /dev/md0
> 
> output
> 
> File size limit exceeded

You must log in directly at the console as root (no su or sudo), or
disable any ulimit from being set.

Alternately, if you get the very latest e2fsprogs (1.27) then it
should also be able to work around this problem.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
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