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Adding a -v to mke2fs won't hurt either.

Maybe you just need to specify the blocksize for mke2fs.
( -b 1024 )

To repeat the questions - only the kernel is different.
Everything else down to the used filesystems / directories
is the same ?

	Stephan


> Here is how I create the fs
> 
> dd if=/dev/zero of=fs.img bs=1024k count=32
> losetup /dev/loop1 ./fs.img
> mke2fs -m0 -i 1024 /dev/loop1
> mount /dev/loop1 ./fs
> cp -dpvR ../template/* ./fs
> umount ./fs
> losetup -d /dev/loop1
> gzip -9 fs.img
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 12:55, Stephan Uphoff wrote:
> > Chris Fowler wrote:
> > > I've experienced something weird on 2.6.
> > > 
> > > We use a loopback device to create a filesystem for our embedded
> > > software.  When I'm on 2.4 the image is created fine with ample free
> > > space on the ext2 fs.  When I use 2.6 as the script is doing cp -dpvR
> > > ../template/* root/  it seems to run out of space on the image.  The cp
> > > command can never finished.  This problem has killed my plans on moving
> > > to 2.6 anytime soon.
> > 
> > Are you using the same userland tools on 2.4 and 2.6 ?
> > Are you creating the loopback device on the same filesystem?
> > Take a look at the different filesystem layouts created by running
> > newfs on 2.4 and 2.6.
> > You probably have to specify some sane parameters for newfs if the
> > defaults no longer work for you.
> > 
> > 
> > 	Stephan
> 
> 



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