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- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!sdd.hp.com!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!randall
- From: Upholder@uiuc.edu (THE Upholder of Truth)
- Subject: Problems with extfs
- Message-ID: <Bs5tqK.BMr@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Summary: Need new binaries for the filesystem?
- Keywords: problems, extfs
- Sender: randall@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (THE Upholder of Truth)
- Reply-To: Upholder@uiuc.edu (THE Upholder of Truth)
- Organization: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 16:56:30 GMT
- Lines: 39
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- I decided to start from scratch on my new 486/50 and use the extended
- filesystem instead of the Minix filesystem...
-
- so after makeing sure I had backed up everything, I repartitioned
- the harddrive and executed the mkefs binaries that I pulled from
- the france FTP site. My partitions are as such:
-
- /dev/hda1 70M dos
- /dev/hda2 8M / (was originally going to be swap until I remembered
- that linux needed a minix root filesystem)
- /dev/hda3 20M /home (using the extfs)
- /dev/hda4 60M /usr (using the extfs)
-
- no problems making or mounting the filesystems... rebuild the system from
- the backups.. modify the fstab as needed... no problems at all.
-
- However, many of the binaries don't seem to want to work with the new
- filesystems.
-
- for example, issuing a 'compress vixie-cron.tar' results in an error message
- that a .Z could not be appended because the filename was already 14 characters.
-
- also, while in /usr/tmp, a emacs README (when README exists) results in emacs
- not finding the file and starting with a new file (apparently because emacs
- cannot find the file). However, emacs /usr/tmp/README works just fine.
-
- Third, tcsh cannot complete the names of directories or files in an extended
- partition (ie, cd /us[TAB]/tm[TAB]/RE[TAB] to get /usr/tmp/README does not
- work. It will find /usr (because it's in the minix I-node list?) but not
- the tmp or thr README).
-
- My question is, do I just need to recompile the binaries or is the problem
- more severe than that?
-
- --
- The Upholder of Truth I am not only ready to
- Upholder@uiuc.edu (BSD/ASCII mail) retract this, but also
- jar42733@sumter.cso.uiuc.edu (NeXT mail) deny I said anything. =)
- wi.4173@wizvax.methuen.ma.us (anon. mail) This is *NOT* CCSO's opinion.
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