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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: mkfs 1.2 problem
Message-ID: <701@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 7 May 88 22:08:01 GMT
References: <1867@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> <7930@eecae.UUCP>
Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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In article <7930@eecae.UUCP> driscoll@eecae.UUCP (Mike Driscoll) writes:
>in article <1867@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>, wee@iris (Chris Wee) says:
>> 
>> I have tried to use mkfs in minix to construct a file system  us-
>> ing  a proto file -- it does not work for me.  Is anyone aware of
>> any problems with mkfs?  Even the examples in the  text  and  the
>> example files on the master distribution do not work.

The only thing I can think of, is give mkfs more stack space with chmem.
For example, chmem =40000 /usr/bin/mkfs.  Many weird problems are caused by
not having enough stack space. 

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)