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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Sat, 5 Aug 2006 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > this is my third computer where the BL3 e2fsck is not working correctly.
>
> The BL3 e2fsck works fine.  The reason it can't check
> your BL2 partition is because you created it (mke2fs)
> with the sparse-super flag.  The e2fsck in BL3 pre-dates
> sparse-super partitions, so it doesn't know how to deal
> with them.
>
> The mke2fs (libc5) in BL3 does not create sparse-super
> partitions.  However, more recent mke2fs (glibc2) do
> sparse-super by default.  Therefore, to keep your
> partitions compatible between BL2 and BL3, you should
> turn off sparse-super in the BL2 mke2fs (-s 0) or use
> the BL3 mke2fs.

Thanks, but what do I do about all the computers where I already created 
the partitions with BL2 or pqmagic?  Can I turn it off after creating 
them?  I don't want to have to redo them all.

Is there some advantage to sparse-super?

Would it be difficult or impossible for me to compile a static mke2fs that 
will work on sparse-super partitions?  The BL2 ext2fs won't work in BL3, 
it segfaults even with libc6 added.

I will try to redo ramdisk BL2 to incorporate mke2fs and the later 
libext2fs.  Mount -o loop baslinux, add and replace files, gzip again and 
umount?

> Cheers,
> Steven
>
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