Bug 10040 - mke2fs and mkfs on multiple 18G hard drives
Summary: mke2fs and mkfs on multiple 18G hard drives
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Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: e2fsprogs
Version: 6.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Cristian Gafton
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Reported: 2000-03-07 18:59 UTC by jyong
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-05-15 14:30:58 UTC
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Description jyong 2000-03-07 18:59:47 UTC 
Situation:
    I'm trying to install 4 18.2G Hard Drives off of a wide SCSI card
      on a clean system that I'm bringing up with 6.1
    When I ran mkfs or mke2fs on these (1 partition per drive) I can
      get through one drive fine, but the next one will hang the machine.
      Replicating the problem, I did a free right after a reinstall of
      6.1 and it showed 193M of ram (roughly all free).  Right after the
      first mke2fs, I only had about 3M free.  This memory is not being
      freed up regardless of what I try.  Any suggestion?

Questions:
    Is there a memory leak with either mke2fs or mkfs?
Comment 1 Cristian Gafton 2000-09-06 14:39:15 UTC 
Try the updated kernel from 6.2?
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