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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
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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