Re: 2.1.47 ext2 problems

Andrea Arcangeli (arcangeli@mbox.queen.it)
Thu, 31 Jul 1997 00:41:17 +0200 (CEST)


On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Matthew Harrell wrote:

>
>I've encountered two problems with 2.1.47 and both of them involve floppies.
>First of all, when I make an ext2 filesystem on a floppy and mount it
>I get the error
>
> EXT2-fs error (device 02:00): ext2_find_entry: bad entry in directory #2:
> inode out of bounds - offset=44, inode=6145, rec_len=16, name_len=6
>
>whenever I try to create a file. I've got whole logs full of these.
>

I can' t duplicate this with [2.1.47] too:

arca:/home/andrea# mke2fs /dev/fd0
mke2fs 1.10, 24-Apr-97 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
Linux ext2 filesystem format
Filesystem label=
360 inodes, 1440 blocks
72 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=1
Block size=1024 (log=0)
Fragment size=1024 (log=0)
1 block group
8192 blocks per group, 8192 fragments per group
360 inodes per group

Writing inode tables: done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done
arca:/home/andrea# mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/
arca:/home/andrea# cp /vmlinuz /mnt/
arca:/home/andrea# ls /mnt/
lost+found vmlinuz
arca:/home/andrea# umount /mnt/
arca:/home/andrea# mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/
arca:/home/andrea# ls /mnt/
lost+found vmlinuz
arca:/home/andrea# umount /mnt/

Andrea Arcangeli