On Wednesday 01 October 2008, 22:30, Noam Rathaus wrote: > Hi, > > I tried formatting a new HD for our existing RedHat 7.3 OS and it complains > that the ext3 has incompatible ext3 flags, any ideas how to format using 'old > ext3'? > > (I am forced to format this disk inside a Debian OS) >
It might be the inode size - the man page on my Debian says the default is 256 bytes, and that 2.4 kernels won't mount a filesystem with inodes larger than 128. try adding -I 128 to the mke2fs flags. Shahar ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
