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- From: amartell@nyx.cs.du.edu (Alex Martelli)
- Subject: Re: making file system (quick)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.083215.4830@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
- References: <1993Jan5.033401.8948@wuecl.wustl.edu>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 93 08:32:15 GMT
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- ppc1@cec2.wustl.edu (Peter Pui Tak Chiu) writes:
- ...
- >i tried to make file system but it doesn't work.
- >i have a 110MB harddisk and i use the whole thing as one partition for LINUX
- >then i did: mkfs /dev/hda1 147700 (something like that)
- >and it said that the limit of the number of blocks is 65535.
-
- It is, for the default Minix filesystem.
-
- >so how can i utilize the whole hard disk for linux?
- >do i have to make several partitions?
-
- Either that, or use the extended filesystem, which, however, is still
- considered to be in alpha-test by its author. Amongst its advantages,
- besides large partitions, are long filenames (Minix filesystem is
- limited to 14 character filenames); among its disadvantages, allegedly,
- are possibble unreliability, and slower performance than the Minix
- filesystem (I'm using it exclusively, and have had no problems nor
- unacceptable performance on my speedy machine, but, there are no
- guarantees - still, you'll be fine if you backup regularly:-). Please
- don't mail to ask how to get the extended filesystem, just look in
- the alphatest directory or whatever ftp-server you're getting
- Linux from, under some monicker such as "efs*"...
-
-
- Alex
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- Alex Martelli - preferred email alex@am.sublink.org
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