Re: fdisk: "File size limit exceeded on fdisk" 2.4.10 to 2.4.13-pre6

Tim Tassonis (timtas@cubic.ch)
Wed, 24 Oct 2001 18:34:26 +0200


On Wed, 24 Oct 2001 12:28:05 -0400 (EDT)
"Mohammad A. Haque" <mhaque@haque.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > > The latter seems to be the case because Vita Samel (hope I got this
right)
> > > just reported that "Booting into 2.4.10-ac10" fixed the problem.
Perhaps
> > > it once was fixed and later defixed?
> >
> > Sounds like it. I'll have a look some point next week to see if I can
see
> > what is up
>
> I'm able fdisk/mke2fs with 2.4.13-pre6 without the error so long as I
> don't touch the device with hdparm.

Well I do use hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda in init to set dma to 1. I know called
hdparm -d 0 /dev/hda and tried again, but it still fails. Do you mean
hdparm should not touch the device at all and a reboot without the hdparm
-d 1 /dev/hda would do the job? I could live with that for the moment, as
I don't have to repartition my drive very often...

Bye
Tim

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