Description of problem: Attempting to create a file system on a large drive with a lrage block size causes newfs.ext3 to fail with a Floating point exception. I've tried both -T largefile4 and -T largefile and both result in the failure. It works fine if you leave off the -T option. The drive in question is in a 200G drive in a USB 2.0 enclosure. The same thing happens with a 250G drive in the same enclosure. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mke2fs 1.34 (25-Jul-2003) How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Attach drive to system. 2. Verify drive atatched with "fdisk -l /dev/sda" 3. Create file system "mkfs.ext3 -j -T largefile /dev/sda2" Actual results: [root@penguin greg]# mkfs.ext3 -j -m 0 -T largefile /dev/sda2 mke2fs 1.34 (25-Jul-2003) Floating point exception Expected results: File system should be created without error. Additional info: System is a AMD Athlon XP 2500+ system, motherboard is ASUS A7V8X-X, enclosure is an ADS USB 2.0/1394 device but only using USB 2.0 at this time. I've tried both built-in USB ports as well as with an extra card. Same results using both USB ports so it's unlikely to be a USB problem. In addition the file system works fine (for the most part) if the -T largefile option is not used.
Can you please check if the current rpm from the development tree is also causing the same problem: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/* fedora/development/SRPMS/e2fspro* Thanks a lot for your report, Florian La Roche
As confirmed in private email, the newest rpm is fixing this problem. Florian La Roche