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- From: Upholder@uiuc.edu (THE Upholder of Truth)
- Subject: Re: Creating/Formating a 200 MB partition.
- Message-ID: <BtGv7q.CzG@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Sender: randall@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (THE Upholder of Truth)
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- Organization: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
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- Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 02:35:36 GMT
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- doug@owl.isis.org (Douglas W Murray) writes:
- >Hi Linuxers...
-
- >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:
-
- > 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
-
- you pretty much have three options:
-
- a) use the Alpha extended filesystem..
- or
- b) use efdisk and make additional paritions in the extended partition
- (/dev/hda5 through hda8) that are all less than 64M (that being
- the size limit of the minix-style 'default' filesystem.)
- or
- c) make one filesystem of <64M in /dev/hda4 and ignore the rest of
- the space in tha partition. (but b) is a better option than this)
-
-
- NOTE: Although the extended filesystem is still in alpha release, I've been
- using it exclusively on my system (486/50, 16M - 8M swap, .97pl1.1)
- without a single problem that was not a direct result of a stupid action
- on my part. So it is fairly stable.. but might not be backwards
- compatible when the next version is released.
-
- It might be best to make additional partitions in /dev/hda4 and then
- use the extended filesystems in each... then to upgrade the filesystems
- without starting from scratch, tar one partition to another partition
- and then upgrade.... this allows maximum felxibility when you want to
- change the filesystem.
- --
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