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- From: Claus Brod <clausb@hpbeo79.bbn.hp.com>
- Subject: Problem with Minixfs ?
- Date: Mon, 6 Dec 93 9:49:26 MEZ
- Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85]
-
- >I've just had a horrible thought. I seem to recall some mention of hard disk
- >partitioning software making a partition look (from the boot sector) 1 cluster
- >larger than it should to counteract the TOS problem with not using the last
- >data cluster.
-
- RECLAIM does that by changing the number of sectors in the bootsector.
- I also wrote a patch of my own which does not modify the bootsector
- but hooks into the BIOS vector and manipulates the Getbpb() return
- "value". Would the latter also be dangerous when using Minixfs?
-
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