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From: KHATUKA%ROSEVC.Rose-Hulman.Edu@uicvm.uic.edu (Aditya Khatuka)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: File system problem
Message-ID: <39869@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
Date: 22 Dec 90 19:52:30 GMT
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Hi,
        I was trying to install minix 1.5 that I got from PH on Zenith
8088 ,8Mz (ZF-158-42) PC with Seagate ST-251 (42 MB).
Using  fdisk -h6 -s17 /dev/hd0, I partioned the drive as below:

                             ----first-  ---last-----   ----sectors-------
Num  Sorted Active Type    Cyl Head Sec  Cyl Head Sec   Base   Last   Size
 1     1      A    min      0   0    2   224  5    16     1+  22948  22948
 2     2           min    225   0    1   450  5    17  22950  46001  23052
 3     3           min    451   0    1   702  5    17  46002  71705  25704
 4     4           dos-12 703   0    1   818  5    17  71706  83573  11832

        After writing this and rebooting the system, when I am trying to make
filesystem (from root), using mkfs /dev/hd1 11470, my problem starts.
        The error message that i am gettng are as below:
Unrecoverable write error on device 3/1, block 11469
Unrecoverable disk error on device 3/1, block 11469
Error: File system is too big for minor device
Line 1 being processes when error detected.



        I have tried this with various partition size and on all partition, but
the error message remains same except for the numerical values.

        Once when I used (wth above fdisk table) mkfs /dev/hd1 3000, the file
system succeded, but am I not loosing a lot of disk space with this.


        Can anyone suggest where I went wrong and how to rectify it.

thanks

aditya

Khatuka@rosevc.rose-hulman.edu