Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!netcom!hinton
From: hinton@netcom.UUCP (Greg Hinton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: mkfs bombing out
Message-ID: <1695@netcom.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jul 89 06:31:12 GMT
Reply-To: hinton@netcom.UUCP (Greg Hinton)
Organization: NetCom -- San Jose, CA
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I've been re-installing minix 1.2 after a recent hard-disk crash & decided to
change the partitions around some.  Previously, minix was on the first
partition & DOS was on the second; now I'd like DOS on the first & minix
split between the second & third.  However, I've run across a problem with
mkfs: on partitions 2 - 4 (/dev/hd[2-4]), mkfs crashes if the file system size
is greater than about 7200 with the message:
	Error: put_block couldn't write
	Line 1 being processed when error detected.

Mkfs works just fine, however, on the first partition (/dev/hd1) with any
file system size.  Anyboby know what's going on here?  Is this a bug or am
I just being exceptionally dense?

Also, even when mkfs returns without error, fsck doesn't like the file
system produced.  It fails with the error:
	bad magic number in super block

Help!


Greg Hinton
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"I've never let school get in the way of my education."