Okay. So any error should go over serial. Cool.

Basically, this is the output I get when I try to perform a fsck on one of the music partitions of an 80GB drive without swap... This is the error (or something very similar) I suspect is happening when emplode's fsck does not clear the dirty flag...

empeg:/empeg/bin# fsck -fay /drive0

Parallelizing fsck version 1.19 (13-Jul-2000)

e2fsck 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09

Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes

Pass 2: Checking directory structure

Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity

Pass 4: Checking reference counts

Pass 5: Checking group summary information

no room for private writable mapping

error: -12

fsck.ext2: Memory allocation failed while retrying to read bitmaps for /dev/hda4

empeg:/empeg/bin#