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From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>
To: Robin Cutshaw <robin@intercore.com>
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Subject: Re: fsck problem with 2.2.5-971015-BETA
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On Sun, 19 Oct 1997, Robin Cutshaw wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 19, 1997 at 06:35:50PM +0200, J Wunsch wrote:
> > As Robin Cutshaw wrote:
> > 
> > > "fsck -p" in /etc/rc fails when it gets to the 1st 9GB drive
> > > with "cannot alloc 2088961 bytes for statemap".
> > 
> > ISTR a comment that you need to increase the VM resource limits to
> > fsck large filesystems.
> > 
> 
> Why does the fsck work correctly once the system is up in multi-user
> mode?
Because in multi-user, it has access to swap.  If your turn swapon in
single-user, I'll bet the fsck will work.

> 
> robin
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