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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
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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

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