Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 13:07:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org> To: Tom <tom@sdf.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: DPT install problem Message-ID: <XFMail.980526130710.shimon@simon-shapiro.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980522155651.21115B-100000@misery.sdf.com>
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On 22-May-98 Tom wrote:
>
> On Fri, 22 May 1998, Simon Shapiro wrote:
>
>>
>> I agree, but I do virtually most of my new installs on 3.0 and with
>> filesystems of 4GB or smaller. Some 16GB filesystems seem to work fine.
>>
>> It may very well be that the problem is in the fact that the swap device
>> may or may not be activated at the time of newfs. Does anyone know the
>> answer to this question?
>
> I'm pretty sure swap is enabled at that point.
>
> It is doesn't seem like an out of memory issue, becuase I would expect
> newfs to die with an error. Also, newfs seems to run to completion
> (prints a new line after the last line of sector numbers).
Not a memory, but a ulimit problem.
Simon
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Sincerely Yours,
Simon Shapiro Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG
770.265.7340
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