[plug] Debian Trap for the unaware

[David Griffiths]

>On Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 03:36:25PM +0800, Andrew Howell wrote:
>[...]
>> This is probably because under potato you created filesystems
>> with sparse superblocks which on 2.2 kernels can understand.
>>
>> Last time I installed a potato box under i386 it defaulted to not using
>> sparse superblocks. Last time I did it on a sparc it asked me.
>>
>> I'm assuming your slink box is still running a 2.0 kernel.
>
>Further ;
> * mke2fs 1.12 (which comes with slink) _can_ produce filesystems with
>   sparse superblocks, but the default is off.
> * mke2fs 1.18 (which comes with potato) defaults to off if you're
>   running a 2.0 kernel, and defaults to on if you're running a 2.2
>   kernel.
>
>Versions in between might have asked, but apparently not anymore...

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I got caught out on the weekend too trying to mount newly created RH6.1
partitions from my trusty Tom's RTB linux floppy. Same problem with sparse
superblocks I think.  Time to update Toms :-(

Dave.