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- From: marc@r-node.pci.on.ca (Marc G. Fournier)
- Subject: Re: making file system (quick)
- References: <1993Jan5.033401.8948@wuecl.wustl.edu> <andrewc.726222613@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Organization: R-node Public Access Unix - 1 416 249 5366
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 14:23:15 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.142315.35781@r-node.pci.on.ca>
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- andrewc@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !) writes:
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- >ppc1@cec2.wustl.edu (Peter Pui Tak Chiu) writes:
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- >Yep, that's right. You haven't read the FAQ either, have you ?
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- >Go and get it, and see what it says about the Extended Filesystem...
- >(just a hint)
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- And to further the hint, since the question was asked:
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- In Linux, when you fdisk, you have an option (t) that allows
- you to change the type of file system. The default is a MINIX/Linux
- file system, which has a limit of 65Meg per file system. If you, in
- fdisk, switch the file system to the extended-fs (83), then you can
- use the whole thing as one big file system. I currently have a 180Meg
- news file system that is using the ext-fs format and haven't had any
- problems so far.
-
- Marc
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