> I'm having the following problem with RH7.1 Kickstarts: > > During the partitioning phase, when mke2fs runs for a reasonably large > partition (eg. 10-100GB), mke2efs often, but not always, hangs at the > following point: > > # mke2fs /dev/rd/c0d0p2 > [mke2fs output...] > > Writing inode tables: 1/683 > > It just sits there, sometimes forever (I once cancelled kickstart > after a day). Well, it turns out that if I create the partition "manually" in the %post section, it works just fine. There's something weird about the way anaconda runs mke2fs, it seems.