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- From: doug@owl.isis.org (Douglas W Murray)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Creating/Formating a 200 MB partition.
- Message-ID: <kumXPB1w164w@owl.isis.org>
- Date: Sat, 22 Aug 92 23:52:43 GMT
- Organization: Quoi! me organized?
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- Hi Linuxers...
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- I am wondering if one of you might know how I should go about in doing a
- 'mkfs' for a 208 MB partition. As it stands, here is what my drive partion
- looks like:
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- Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
- /dev/hda1 * 1 63 82655 41296+ 6 DOS 16-bits >= 32M
- /dev/hda2 82656 82656 164577 40961 81 Linux/MINIX
- /dev/hda3 164578 164578 205539 20481 82 Linux swap
- /dev/hda4 205540 205540 621934 208197+ 5 Extended
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- hda1 is for DOS, hda2 is Linux root, hda3 is for swap and hda4 is 'useless'
- if I try to use 'mkfs'. When I run it against hda4, I get the following:
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- mkfs: number of blocks must be less than 65536 fro a Minix-type filesystem.
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- Any suggestions on how I could resolve this would be greatly appreciated.
- If this appears in the FAQ, please forgive me.
-
- Doug!
-