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From: jonathan@ism780c.isc.com (Jonathan C. Broome)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: minix on hard drive
Message-ID: <16651@ism780c.isc.com>
Date: 23 Sep 88 20:11:26 GMT
References: <1484@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG> <13696@mimsy.UUCP>
Reply-To: jonathan@ism780c.UUCP (Jonathan C. Broome)
Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica CA
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In article <13696@mimsy.UUCP> jds@mimsy.umd.edu (James da Silva) writes:
: I have a 20 meg Minix partition on my disk.  I don't recall for sure but I 
: think Minix can go up to 64M (it seems right - 65536 zones) with zone size =
: block size = 1K.  I know that in theory you can make the zone size a multiple
: of the block size to support very large disks, but I'm not sure if anyone has
: actually tried this.

I have tried larger partitions, still 1K zone size, and found that fsck & fs
were unhappy with > 27500 blocks per filesystem.  One of these days I'll
investigate -- with a partition of 80 MB allocated, I'd like to be able to use
more of it!  I'm also working on 'soft partitioning', to allow using only one
of the four (precious few) "hard" partitions that the BIOS knows about, 
splitting it into (currently) up to 8 filesystems.  It will also support bad
sector remapping.

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