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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: mkfs under 386/ix
Message-ID: <1990Dec07.011852.14536@virtech.uucp>
Date: 7 Dec 90 01:18:52 GMT
References: <1990Dec4.080453.3739@actrix.gen.nz>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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In article <1990Dec4.080453.3739@actrix.gen.nz> paul@actrix.gen.nz (Paul Gillingwater) writes:
>The problem:  the standard ISC docs donfor 2.02 't have a mkfs man page.  

I don't know where you got your docs, but there is a man page for mkfs in
the 2.0.2 docs.  Maybee you aren't checking the correct section (1M).

>I couldn't work out how big the file system originally was, in
>blocks, because I'd lost the mkfs.data that was originally created.

This information will be in /etc/partitions.  If you don't have the file,
you can get a copy by running mkpart(1M) with the correct arguments.

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