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From: mings@cs.uoregon.edu (Ming Yau So)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Help ! mount:File table oveflow (MacMinix)
Keywords: MacMinix, mount
Message-ID: <1991Mar20.041931.25571@cs.uoregon.edu>
Date: 20 Mar 91 04:19:31 GMT
Sender: mings@cs.uoregon.edu (Ming Yau So)
Followup-To: comp.os.minix
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Oregon
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Hi, I am a newcomer of MacMinix, and I've come across the following problem.
I like to ask could anybody please help me to solve it.

My problem is: when I try to mount a file system on /dev/fd0, I got the
error message "mount: File table overflow".  At the time I try to mount this
file system, I already have 5 other file systems mounted (/dev/hd[0-4]), so
I guess this may be the source of the problem, anyone can confirm this ?
BTW, I really want to know is there a way for me to mount the file system on
/dev/fd0 without unmounting any of the mounted file system ?  I want to do
this because all of the mounted file systems have things which I needed to
backup onto the one on the floppy disk.  I have read the book and manual
extensively, and I know the table involved is either the bitmap table, the
inode table, or the super-block table, but I can't figure out which one of
them really caused the problem, and how do I solve the problem.

Another question I want to ask is, can I put other file systems, besides
the root filse system, onto the ram disk ?  What I really want is to put
the file system for /tmp onto the ram disk.  The manual only tell you how
to create a ram disk with the root file system on it, but does not mention
how to create a ram disk with other file system on it, so I just wonder
could this be possible.

Thanks in advance for any help.



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