Thanks a lot to Mr. Zbyslaw. Being too lazy myself to fiddle with the soft limit via the shell or bootloader, I did the following in the kernel build config file:
options MAXDSIZ=(1024UL*1024*1024) options DFLDSIZ=(1024UL*1024*1024) This way, fsck works just fine. To address other people's suggestions: I haven't tried to force the fsck under the old limit. A local friend has suggested to increase the block size to newfs, or something along those lines - essentially to decrease the FS overhead and the size of the "blockmap". I haven't tried that but I guess it sounds reasonable - may make sense on machines where you just can't get enough RAM or are not willing to grant it all to a single process. Thanks to everyone who replied :-) Frank Rysanek On 8 Jun 2005 at 16:01, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > >cannot alloc 768053748 bytes for blockmap > > > Do you have MAXDSIZ set in your kernel? And what about any limits? > > e.g. I have options MAXDSIZ=(1024UL*1024*1024) > and "limit memoryuse unlimited" _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
