> It appears as though mke2fs will not allow operation on a partition
> that exceeds about 3++ gigabytes. It errors out with "illegal
> request" messages.
old e2fsprogs and/or old libc
(llseek was broken once opon a time, so over 2GB things broke)
FWIW;
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
[...]
/dev/md0 8609840 7579196 586200 93% /mounts/ar0
> It also appears as though mkswap will not allow a swap partition in
> excess of about 128 megabytes.
swap file limitation use more than one swap file or sct's new `big
swap files patch'
-cw
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