Re: Hard Disk size limits on GNU Hurd

Hi Samuel,


Quoting Samuel Thibault (2024-03-22 14:01:51)
> Tanguy LE CARROUR, le ven. 22 mars 2024 13:33:59 +0100, a ecrit:
> > Quoting Samuel Thibault (2024-03-22 12:37:33)
> > > Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez, le ven. 22 mars 2024 12:31:04 +0100, a ecr=
it:
> > > > Several years ago there was a limit in the size of the hard disks t=
hat Hurd
> > > > could manage. If i'm not wrong, i think it was 5 Gb. or so.
> > > >=20
> > > > Is still this limit working right now?, or can i create a disk imag=
e (for
> > > > kvm) with the size i decide (20 Gb. let's say)?.
> > >=20
> > > Please read the faq ;)
> > >=20
> > > https://darnassus.sceen.net/~hurd-web/faq/
> > > https://darnassus.sceen.net/~hurd-web/faq/2_gib_partition_limit/
> >=20
> > It was working fine until I ran short of disk space and increased it to
> > 20Gb.
>=20
> Did you really increase the filesystem size as well?
>=20
> > Now, it randomly crashes with error messages like:
> >=20
> > ```
> > ext2fs: BUG: unexpected fault on disk image (10, 0x8ffc000) in
> > [0xB8222000,0x18222000) eip 0x8052224 err 0xa
> > ```
> >=20
> > or:
> >=20
> > ```
> > ext2fs: disk-pager.c:109: fault_handler: Assertion =E2=80=99err=E2=80=
=99 failed.
> > ```
>=20
> This looks to me like ENOSPC messages.

Oh=E2=80=A6 oh=E2=80=A6 the configuration of a childhurd, like everything e=
lse on Guix,
is declarative and=E2=80=A6 I have no clue how it works internally! =F0=9F=
=98=85
Thanks for the hint! I=E2=80=99ll investigate!

Regards,

--=20
Tanguy