Re: Ramdisks and tmpfs problems

From: Andrew Morton (akpm@zip.com.au)
Date: Tue Apr 09 2002 - 14:49:56 EST


Geoffrey Gallaway wrote:
>
> ...
> Originally I started playing with ram disks but when I try to create a new
> ramdisk with "mke2fs /dev/ram0 16384" mke2fs says:
> mke2fs: Filesystem larger then apparent filesystem size.
> Proceed anyway? (y,n) y
> Warning: could not erase sector 2: Invalid arguement
> Warning: could not erase sector 0: Attempt to write block from filesystem
> resulted in short write
> mke2fs: Invalid arguement zeroing block 16320 at end of filesystem

Try omitting the `16384' option - let mke2fs work out the
size.
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