Ext3 Inode Problems

I recently did a fresh install of Intrepid Ibex because the upgrade button didn’t give me all of the new features, and my system was getting strange anyway since I installed PulseAudio from source. When I tried to mount my new partition, (with Ext2 IFS) Windows proclaimed:

The disk in drive L: is not formatted. Would you like to format it?

I could still mount my old partition, a fsck turned up no errors… I eventually discovered that the driver’s limitation of 128 byte inodes was the problem. Ext2fsd supports larger inode sizes. (Mine is 256 bytes.) Its UI is somewhat clunkier, but still perfectly usable.

I’m also catching up on all the South Park I missed. Good stuff.

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