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From: stailey@iris613.gsfc.nasa.gov (Ken Stailey)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Hard disk partitioning problems on zenith Z150 HELP!!
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Date: 21 Oct 89 17:31:11 GMT
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In article <13026@boulder.Colorado.EDU> barbour@spot.colorado.EDU (BARBOUR JIM) writes:
>[stuff deleted] I want very
>much to be able to partition our 20 MB hard drives so that I can load the
>root file system into /dev/hd3
>
>I am having these problems:
>
>1.  mkfs /dev/hd0 20000 # twenty-thousand
>       fails.
I don't think that you can mkfs /dev/hd0.  Why do you want to do this
if /dev/hd3 is the target disk for the root file system?


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