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

Mohammad A. Haque (mhaque@haque.net)
Wed, 24 Oct 2001 12:39:15 -0400 (EDT)


On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Tim Tassonis wrote:

> > 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...

Exactly. At least that's what I'm seeing here.

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