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From: sschnellm@cc.curtin.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: file sizes
Message-ID: <3102.26c7d6ce@cc.curtin.edu.au>
Date: 14 Aug 90 02:47:42 GMT
References: <3077.26c290ee@cc.curtin.edu.au> <2159@runxtsa.runx.oz.au>
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
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In article <2159@runxtsa.runx.oz.au>, brucee@runxtsa.runx.oz.au (Bruce Evans) writes:
> In article <3077.26c290ee@cc.curtin.edu.au> sschnellm@cc.curtin.edu.au writes:
>>compressed all directories. Now my commands.tar.Z file is 1.24 Mbytes
>>big. 
>>I have made a file system of size 1450 blocks on a 1.44Mbyte disk, but
>>when I mount it and say
>>
>>      cp commands.tar.Z /mnt3
>>
>>I get the following error message :
>>
>>cp : error 0
> 
> There are only 1440 blocks on a 1.44M disk.
> 
I must apologize for the above misunderstanding. 
When I formatted the disk under DOS, it actually formatted to 1.451Mbytes.
Therefore I made a 1450 block size file system on the disk.
This still does not explain the error message.

Marcus Schnell