Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!botter!star!ast 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 Lines: 13 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)