RE: Linux-2.4.18-rc3-ac3: bug with using whole disks as filesystems

David Luyer (david@luyer.net)
Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:03:11 +1000


Followup to my own post:

> I attempted to mkfs and use a whole disk rather than a partition
> with reiserfs. It failed (not a major problem, I'll just make a
> partition), but it failed with a "kernel BUG" message, so here 'tis.

[...]

> Original commands to cause failure:
> mkfs -b 8192 /dev/sdb -f
> mount /dev/sdb /cache

Actually looks like the -b 8192 was the problem, the same happened
on /dev/sdb1. Had to reboot again after that as mount was hanging
in the same way as cfdisk had previously. Similar 'kernel BUG'
message resulted.

David.

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