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I can not understand why the size of the lost+found directory is 12MB
(12288 blocks). Yet when I do ls -a in lost+found I get only the two
entries . and ..
running e2fsck does not find any problems.
Any insight ?
Thanks again,
--Michael

: I can not understand why the size of the lost+found directory is 12MB
: (12288 blocks). Yet when I do ls -a in lost+found I get only the two

That isn't blocks, thats bytes. So it uses 12K, NOT 12 meg.
'ls' shows the byte size, not the block size.

try 'du -s /lost+found'. It should give you back '12'.

: entries . and ..
: running e2fsck does not find any problems.
: Any insight ?
: Thanks again,
: --Michael

Michael.

I had a similar problem when I made a partition with exact multiples
of 8 Megs (48 MB total).
Just after mke2fs, df claimed that nearly 20% of total space was
used already!
Then I decresed a few blocks (just below 8 Meg boundary),
and the reserved size was dropped to 1 to 2 Meg bytes.
Maybe a common problem with mke2fs (or e2fs)?

Jay

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: Just after mke2fs, df claimed that nearly 20% of total space was
: used already!
: Then I decresed a few blocks (just below 8 Meg boundary),
: and the reserved size was dropped to 1 to 2 Meg bytes.
: Maybe a common problem with mke2fs (or e2fs)?

Let me throw in a "bug report". We tried making a file system on
a new SCSI disk. It was slightly larger than what I'm used to, when working
with Linux: It was 425Mb. It seems that it was also larger than what mke2fs
was used to.... It crashed with an "out of memory" error. It seems
that mke2fs builds up some datastructures in memory before writing everything
to disk.

I don't consider it "You're nuts if you want to do that" if I want to
run mke2fs on an 8Mb machine when I haven't yet configured any swapspace.
Similarly 400Mb isn't really THAT much. (it did manage 300Mb by the way...)

                                        Roger.

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> Let me throw in a "bug report". We tried making a file system on
> a new SCSI disk. It was slightly larger than what I'm used to, when working
> with Linux: It was 425Mb. It seems that it was also larger than what mke2fs
> was used to.... It crashed with an "out of memory" error. It seems
> that mke2fs builds up some datastructures in memory before writing everything
> to disk.

Just use the current version of mke2fs. That bug was fixed in 0.3.

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   You could add swap before doing a mke2fs, yeah 8 Megs ram should still be
        more than enough...

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>Just use the current version of mke2fs. That bug was fixed in 0.3.

Yes, this version uses much less memory.  
As a note, the current SLS version is still stuck in .2c, so don't get
it from there.

Jimmy