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Re: problems formatting partition via ks

To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>, Will Francis <wfrancis@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: problems formatting partition via ks
From: "Nathan Scott" <nathans@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 11:10:43 +1000
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sgi.com> "Re: problems formatting partition via ks" (Jul 17, 10:03am)
References: <200107162311.f6GNBKT21957@vertigo.incyte.com> <995382195.1063.2.camel@stout.americas.sgi.com>
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hi,

On Jul 17, 10:03am, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Subject: Re: problems formatting partition via ks
> On 16 Jul 2001 16:11:20 -0700, Will Francis wrote:
> 
> > when making /usr/local/net, it fails with these errors:
> 
> Nathan's right, it's a limitation on the length of allowed labels in
> XFS...  I put the labeling code into the XFS installer to make it behave
> more like the ext2 install, but didn't anticipate this.  Whoops.  I'll
> put out an update floppy to fix this (by turning labels back off, I
> suppose).
> 

Is that necessary?  Would you not get a similar error doing
the same thing on ext2 (although with the upper limit at 16
rather than 12 chars)?

I didn't see anything bad here, so far anyway...

cheers.

-- 
Nathan


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