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- From: card@masi.ibp.fr (Remy CARD)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Problems with extfs
- Keywords: problems, extfs
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.165653.8411@jussieu.fr>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 16:56:53 GMT
- References: <Bs5tqK.BMr@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Sender: news@jussieu.fr (Le Facteur)
- Organization: Laboratoire MASI - Universite Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris - France
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- In article <Bs5tqK.BMr@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Upholder@uiuc.edu (THE Upholder of Truth) writes:
- >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?
-
- To use the ext fs (and any fs different from the Minix fs) in Linux, you
- have to recompile every program using the readdir() system call (e.g. tar, shells,
- file utils, ...) with gcc 2.2.2 (actually at least gcc 2.11c but it is better to
- use the last release).
-
- >
- >--
- >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.
-
-
- Remy Card
- card@masi.ibp.fr
-