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From: Simon Shapiro <Shimon@i-Connect.Net>
Subject: Re: bin/2633: fsck -p in /etc/rc fails with cannot alloc nnnn by
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The following reply was made to PR bin/2633; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Simon Shapiro <Shimon@i-Connect.Net>
To: (Joerg Wunsch) <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, (J Wunsch) <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Subject: Re: bin/2633: fsck -p in /etc/rc fails with cannot alloc nnnn by
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 1997 11:37:31 -0800 (PST)

 Hi J Wunsch;  On 01-Feb-97 you wrote: 
 > As shimon@i-Connect.Net wrote:
 > 
 > >     When booting, fsck -p (in /etc/rc) fails with ``cannot alloc
 > > nnnn bytes for lncntp'' error, thus makes it impossible to boot into
 > > init level 2.  This happens consistently for file systems which are
 > > about 4GB large.
 > 
 > Does the error go away if you enable swapping before?
 
 I did not try.  Being that this is a standard /etc/rc, and the machine has
 64MB of RAM, it should not have a problem.  I think.
 
 Simon
 
 P.S.  I will try.
 
 Simon