linux-ext4 - Re: Memory allocation failed, e2fsck: aborted

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Date:	Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:36:47 +0200
From:	Andre Noll <maan@...temlinux.org>
To:	Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>,
	linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
	Marcus Hartmann <marcus.hartmann@...bingen.mpg.de>
Subject: Re: Memory allocation failed, e2fsck: aborted

On Thu, Aug 19, 15:10, Andre Noll wrote:
> > Something which *might* help (but will take a long time) is to add to
> > your /etc/e2fsck.conf (if you have one; if not create one wiht these
> > contents):
> > 
> > [scratch_files]
> >     directory = /var/cache/fsck
> > 
> > (And then make sure /var/cache/fsck exists.)
> 
> Thanks for the hint. It is running for an hour now and I will report
> back tomorrow. ATM, it's at 1% and the two files in /var/cache/fsck
> are ~50M large.

It got much slower: 4.8% after one day. So I cancelled the fsck and
am copying the raw device to a 64bit machine and run fsck there,
as Andreas suggested.

Thanks
Andre
-- 
The only person who always got his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe

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