> > It appears as though mke2fs will not allow operation on a partition
> > that exceeds about 3++ gigabytes. It errors out with "illegal request"
> > messages.
>
> I've made a 72gig ext2fs with 2.1.131. Are you sure its not a drive or setup
> problem
>
Looks like a too-old mke2fs. It has llseek problems (verified after some
info from others). fdisk looks okay. Also making 3 partitions works okay,
just had to keep the seek-size down. I will get another set of fs tools.
> > It also appears as though mkswap will not allow a swap partition in
> > excess of about 128 megabytes.
>
> You need a newer mkswap + 2.1.x to use big swap files.
>
Will do. Thanks.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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