From: urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) Subject: Re: Why have I lost 12MB to lost+found ? Date: 24 Jun 1993 23:23:45 +0200
In comp.os.linux, article <1993Jun24.160914.9999@donau.et.tudelft.nl>,
wolff@liberator.et.tudelft.nl (Rogier Wolff) writes:
>
> Let me throw in a "bug report". We tried making a file system on
> a new SCSI disk. It was slightly larger than what I'm used to, when working
> with Linux: It was 425Mb. It seems that it was also larger than what mke2fs
> was used to.... It crashed with an "out of memory" error. It seems
> that mke2fs builds up some datastructures in memory before writing everything
> to disk.
>
Just use the current version of mke2fs. That bug was fixed in 0.3.
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