Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!gatech!udel!mmdf From: frank@morgan.com (Frank Wortner) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: mkfs 1.2 problem Message-ID: <2450@louie.udel.EDU> Date: 9 May 88 16:26:48 GMT Sender: mmdf@udel.EDU Lines: 13 Mike Driscoll writes: > As several people pointed out, this does fix the problem. I used >chmem =20000 mkfs and it worked fine. The commands makefile uses >chmem =2048 for whatever command you are making. This is obviously >not correct for mkfs. The book says that whenever something >acts funny, try chmem. One thing the book doesn't tell you about is the "changemem" shell script in the distribution. It contains suggested chmem commands for many commands which need more than a miserly 2048 bytes. I've found that it pays to update, improve, and use this script. Frank