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From: evans@ditsyda.oz (Bruce Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: MINIX ST 1.1 mkfs bug
Keywords: ST 1.1 mkfs
Message-ID: <2569@ditsyda.oz>
Date: 16 Mar 90 14:33:02 GMT
References: <1073@bnrgate.bnr.ca>
Reply-To: evans@ditsyda.oz (Bruce Evans)
Organization: CSIRO DIT Sydney, Australia
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In article <1073@bnrgate.bnr.ca> fortinp@bcars223.bnr.ca (Pierre Fortin) writes:
>    values <= 32767 work OK
>    values >  32767, but <= 65536 produce the error messages
>    values >  65536 do not generate errors (as long as there are sufficient
>                    blocks after subtracting 65536), and produce a MUCH
>                    smaller than expected disk.

Try the 1.5.5 mkfs. It should work up to and including 65535. Fsck, df and
de were also fixed for 1.5.5.

The values > 65536 are truncated without warning :-( by atoi.
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