[TriLUG] short read on mke2fs

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Sat, 30 Aug 2008, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:

> Writing inode tables: done
> ext2fs_mkdir: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted
> in short read while creating root dir

the problem appears to be that fdisk didn't have the right 
size (number of cylinders) for the disk. My 2.4.x machine 
gets the disk size wrong with USB more than occassionally. I 
usually have to reboot the machine. I went back and 
repartitioned the disk, with fdisk reporting a different 
number (presumably the correct number) of cylinders. This 
time the mke2fs went fine.

Thanks Joe
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