Re: corruption with A7A266+200GB disk?

[Erik Andersen]

On Tue Sep 02, 2003 at 02:28:16PM +0100, steveb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> I just got a new 200GB disk (WDC WD2000JB) for my home machine (Asus A7A266,
> Ali chipset). I put some partitions on it like so:
>   hda1:   100MB - /boot
>   hda2:  8192MB - /
>   hda3:  1024MB - swap
>   hda4:  the rest (about 190GB I guess) - /home
> 
> I find that when I mkfs on /home, I get massive filesystem corruption on /
> When I fsck / (and restore the deleted files) I get massive filesystem corruption on /home. Luckily all my real data is still on my old disk...
> 
> I reduced the size of /home to 40GB and everything was fine.
> I see the same behaviour with both 2.6.0test3 and 2.4.22.

Known problem.  For some reason Marcelo has not yet applied 
the fix for this problem to the 2.4.x kernels...

 -Erik

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