I had an unmounted partition, which I wanted to convert to a dosfs. More
exact, it was the former swap space, which I want to share with Windows
according to the "Swap Space Mini Howto". I had done swapoff -a and toggled
the partition type. When I did
"mkdosfs -v -c -l "SWAP SPACE" /dev/hda7 under X, it killed the X-system,
without any chance to switch consoles (-> reset).
When I did it in the console (after recompiling), it stalled that console,
but I was able to switch consoles. Redoing it on another console stalled the
whole system (-> reboot)
This is the message I got from the syslog:
Mar 22 20:19:08 elektron kernel: VFS: brelse: Trying to free free buffer
Mar 22 20:19:08 elektron kernel: VFS: brelse: Trying to free free buffer
Mar 22 20:24:14 elektron kernel: VFS: brelse: Trying to free free buffer
I use Linux-1.3.77 on a P100 32 MByte with gcc-2.7.2 and a.out libc-4.5.26.
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