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From: paula@bcsaic.UUCP (Paul Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Big disks, big problems
Message-ID: <15514@bcsaic.UUCP>
Date: 4 Oct 89 20:43:53 GMT
References: <3442@ast.cs.vu.nl> <15467@bcsaic.UUCP>
Reply-To: paula@bcsaic.UUCP (Paul Allen)
Organization: Boeing Computer Services AI Center, Seattle
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In article <15467@bcsaic.UUCP> paula@bcsaic.UUCP (me) writes:
>In article <3442@ast.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes:
>>
>> [questions about big disks]
>
>I have a 66M disk.  When I tried to create a partition starting
>about 26M into the disk, the 1.3 fdisk wouldn't let me give it more 
>than 32M.  Mkfs had no trouble.  

I apparently mis-spoke.  When I looked at my partition table with
fdisk last night, it showed a tad over 40Mb in my minix partition.
Must've been mkfs that wouldn't let me exceed 32Mb.

Sorry for disseminating my confusion!

Paul
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