The problem is simple and easy reproducible (at least in my
box :), when creating a partition greater than 2GB and copying to it
a large file (+400M) the kernel try to write far beyond the end of the
partition, and it breaks the filesystem completely, e2fsck can't repair
it, and just ignore the errors (cannot writing to block # , ignore? (y)
or something similar is what appears when repairing)
If I use a smaller partition (now 1.8Gb it works nice, at least
during three days).
I'm using 2.1.97 + trivial patches to lp,kmod,...
in a Dual PII 300 with aic7xxx, and a UW IBM 4.5 GB HD, Pioneer 24x SCSI
CDROM, 128Mb ram, the scsi controller is an AIC7xxx integrated in the
P6DLS motherboard.
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