Hi In an escalating process of attempting to recover a large backup volume (historic archaeological data) I tried to compile the latest release of e2fsprogs. This fails on make check with: f_extent_oobounds: failed (i) can I still safely use the compiled tools and progress to make install? If not can I fix something so that test will pass? (ii) given the reason for trying to compile updated tools was to get past the mke2fs -n /dev/xxx output error of "size of device too big to be expressed", is it even worth me trying the updated tools? My thanks in advance for any insights. Regards Chris -- @putt1ck putt1ck.blogspot.com http://twoten.is skype: putt1ck Opinions in this email are my own and may not reflect that of my clients, past employers, associates, friends, family, pets etc.. Documents attached to this email may be in ISO 26300 format: http://iso26300.info -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html