mandusr20071 Posted February 17, 2008 Report Share Posted February 17, 2008 (edited) I am running Mandriva 2007.1 on my system, and the default block size of 1k is causing problems with a file limit of 17G. Now, the block size cannot be changed without copying out all the files and reformatting. What is the default block size for Mandriva 2008? If it is still 1k, is there an option to choose 2k or 4k during install? I find that in the file /etc/mke2fs.conf, the default block size is 4k, with 1k for small file systems. I plan to upgrade my system to 2008, and would like to avoid this problem. Any help is appreciated. [moved from Installing Mandriva by spinynorman] Edited February 17, 2008 by mandusr20071 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted February 17, 2008 Report Share Posted February 17, 2008 This was a bug, that had not been fixed as of the release date of Mandrive 2008. It has however been marked fixed as of 11-26-2007. Please read: qa.mandriva.com I'm assuming that this will be fixed in the official Mandriva 2008.1 release. There is a workaround shown in that original report for earlier releases. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mandusr20071 Posted February 17, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 17, 2008 I suppose the manual formatting will work. Formatting a new disk with a CD like Knoppix would be the way to go then, rather than killing the install in the middle. I suppose letting the / use 1k blocks would not be a problem for most users. Is this a problem in the x86_64 too? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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