[BL] BL2 boot problems
sindi keesan
keesan at sdf.lonestar.org
Sat Aug 5 22:28:01 EDT 2006
On Sat, 5 Aug 2006 3aoo-cvfd at dea.spamcon.org wrote:
> sindi keesan wrote:
>>
>> Is there some advantage to sparse-super?
>
> I think it is faster to e2fsck a sparse-super partition.
>
>> Would it be difficult or impossible for me to compile a
>> static mke2fs that will work on sparse-super partitions?
>
> Should be possible. You'll want to compile both mke2fs
> and e2fsck.
The latest source code, whole package, is 3.5MB package. Version 1.38.
Since version 1.24 it has compiled with dietlibc. Since some earlier
version with libc5. I found instructions for a 'lightweight linux' for
older hardware, involving busybox and uclibc, and compiles e2fsprogs I
think with uclibc. I may attempt it some day, with help. I don't have
BL3 set up for compiling.
Some earlier version won't do partitions over 2GB without trashing them.
There is also a linux defrag that hardly anyone uses.
> > Cheers,
> Steven
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