Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Mar 1996 20:54:41 +0100 | From | Uwe Bonnes <> | Subject | mkdosfs killed the system |
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Hallo,
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.
-- Uwe Bonnes bon@elektron.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de
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