Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!fluke!ssc-vax!bcsaic!paula From: paula@bcsaic.UUCP (Paul Allen) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Big disks, big problems Message-ID: <15467@bcsaic.UUCP> Date: 2 Oct 89 22:25:50 GMT References: <3442@ast.cs.vu.nl> Reply-To: paula@bcsaic.UUCP (Paul Allen) Organization: Boeing Computer Services AI Center, Seattle Lines: 32 In article <3442@ast.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes: > > - Can the at_wini.c driver hack disks > 32M ? > - Can fsck.c work (the MINIX version, not the standalone version)? > - Does mkfs work > 32M? > - Does fdisk work > 32M? > - Does readall work > 32M? > - Does checkdisk work > 32M? I have a 66M disk. When I tried to create a partition starting about 26M into the disk, the 1.3 fdisk wouldn't let me give it more than 32M. Mkfs had no trouble. The kernel-based fsck has no trouble. I haven't tried the command-line version. Haven't tried readall. Checkdisk liked the first few Mb of the partition. When I've got an aeon or two to kill, I'll run it over the whole partition. :-) I'm using the 1.3d at_wini.c without any changes. >What about disks that are larger than 64M, but have a MINIX partition >above 64M? This probably implies longs somewhere, and I don't know if >they are used properly. > Although my disk has 66495 kilobytes, none of my partitions actually reaches to the end. If I get ambitious, perhaps I'll re-partition with the Minix partition up against the end of the disk. Paul Allen -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Paul L. Allen | pallen@atc.boeing.com Boeing Advanced Technology Center | ...!uw-beaver!bcsaic!pallen