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Re: XFS Problem



Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> writes:

> On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 07:15:24AM +0100, Juergen Kreileder wrote:
> the xfs driver in yaboot, and grub does not read fragmented files
> properly, you can check for this with xfs_bmap /boot/vmlinux check
> for any holes, if there are any you will have problems booting.

Ah, thanks!  The files indeed had holes, both on the boot partition
(15% used) and the partition they were built on (45% used).
After "defragmenting" them with cat, they booted fine.


        Juergen

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Juergen Kreileder, Blackdown Java-Linux Team
http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/java2-status/

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