Creating partitions under 2.4.14

Creating partitions under 2.4.14

[Christian Lavoie]

I believe I've hit this bug again:

http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2001-40/0208.html

I'm trying to create a 7.5 gigs partition on /dev/sda, over a aic7xxxx SCSI 
controller [Adaptec 7892A (rev 2)]. Fdisk will create partition labels right, 
but mke2fs dies (1.18 and 1.25 both) with "File size limit exceeded".

I'm running 2.4.14 vanilla, e2fsprogs 1.25, glibc 2.2.1, on a progeny debian 
system (more or less potato).

Anyone can confirm the patch made it into 2.4.15?

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/home/clavoie# fdisk -l /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1115 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1             1        33    265041   82  Linux swap
/dev/sda2            34      1081   8418060   83  Linux
/dev/sda3          1082      1115    273105   82  Linux swap

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/home/clavoie# mke2fs -v /dev/sda2
mke2fs 1.25 (20-Sep-2001)
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=4096 (log=2)
Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
1052480 inodes, 2104515 blocks
105225 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=0
65 block groups
32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
16192 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
        32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632

File size limit exceeded

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Christian Lavoie
clavoie@bmed.mcgill.ca