Re: [Genext2fs-devel] Problems with genext2fs 1.4

[Finn T. <ft...@te...>]

On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Xavier Bestel wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 21:29 +1100, Finn Thain wrote:
> > > Breakpoint 2, alloc_blk (fs=0x40017008, nod=6600) at genext2fs.c:869
> > > 869		error_msg_and_die("couldn't allocate a block (no free space)");
> > 
> > This error is not that it ran out of memory, it filled up the disk image. 
> > 11884 KB (12,169,216 bytes) is not enough for the contents and the device 
> > table. Try increasing the -b parameter. (Don't know why gdb is saying 
> > 13,039,616 bytes...).
> 
> Apparently the error message isn't clear enough. How about "couldn't
> allocate a block (not enough free space in the filesystem image)" ?

Sure. I hope that was all it was...

-f

> 
> 	Xav
> 
> 
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