Re: filesystem creation failed

["Patty O'Reilly" <pattyo nt4dt com>]

Humm, you think it would work with ext2? It is trivial to convert to 
ext3 after the fact... I can test that. Regarding the hardware, I'll 
have to go to school and look at the classroom machines and get back to 
you. However, I didn't need any kernel options on these machines using 
RH 8.0 or 7.3 in previous classes. The machines never rebooted. They 
never made it past the filesystem creation in the install process.

Do you think the problem might have something to do with the fact that 
the machines were previously partitioned and those partitions were then 
removed and recreated?

--patty

Rick Stevens wrote:

> Patty O'Reilly wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Last night during an re-install of 24 classroom machines with RH 9.0, 
> > all 24 machines reported the same error duing the filesystem creation 
> > stage of the install.
> >
> > Students in the class re-installed the machines using a network FTP 
> > install. They deleted all the previously created Linux partitions on 
> > the disk with Disk Druid, then created new partitions, and proceeded 
> > with the interactive install. After the package selection, duing 
> > filesystem creation, this was the error found on all the error log 
> > screens:
> >
> > Writing inode tables: 0/38
> > Could not write 8 blocks in inode table starting at 6: Attempt to 
> > write block on filesytem resulted in short write
> >
> > Somehow I think it is related to the fact that we deleted the linux 
> > partitions first then recreated them. However, I have done this 
> > before with other versions of RedHat duing an install without problem.
> >
> > Has anyone seen this before? Any idea why it happened and how to 
> > avoid it in the future?
>
>
> Can you give us some idea as to what these machines are?  We need to
> know make/model or CPU/motherboard/drive config.  There may be some
> command-line options you need to feed the kernel to get it to go.
>
> In the interim, if you're building ext3 filesystems try it again on ONE
> machine, but build ext2 filesystems.  If that works, then after the
> installation, you can convert to ext3 filesystems.  This URL gives you
> instructions on how to do it:
>
>     http://www.rhil.net/docs/ext2-to-ext3.html
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