Partitions > 2GB?

[Philipp Tomsich]

On Thu, 6 May 1999, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

> Once upon a time, there was a bug in fdisk preventing it to work with disks
> larger than 2 GiB on PPC.

As far as I remember it, there also was a problem with the return value of
llseek in some versions of the glibc. As a consequence, mke2fs was unable
to make a filesystem larger than 2gbs.

--phil.

--
Philipp Tomsich                     eMail: phil at ifs.tuwien.ac.at
Institute of Software Technology    URL: http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/
Vienna University of Technology
Resselgasse 3 / E188
A-1040 Wien, AUSTRIA



[[ This message was sent via the linuxppc-dev mailing list.  Replies are ]]
[[ not  forced  back  to the list, so be sure to Cc linuxppc-dev if your ]]
[[ reply is of general interest. Please check http://lists.linuxppc.org/ ]]
[[ and http://www.linuxppc.org/ for useful information before posting.   ]]