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From: bk0y+@andrew.cmu.edu (Brian Christopher Kircher)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Problem with demo disk on Atari ST
Message-ID: <IbudMs_00V864YJHhE@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 22 Mar 91 23:41:44 GMT
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Organization: Class of '92, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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wxh@lanl.gov (William Harvey) writes:

I just got the Atari minix demo disk.  When I try "mkfs /dev/hd8 16384"
I get:
No space on root device 1/0
Error: put_block couldn't write
Line 1 bewing processed when error detected.

If I try it again, there is a 10 sewcond pause, and then the same
error.
However, a "ls -l" shows:
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root 16777216 Jan 1 00:07 hd8
...


Well, there's your problem.  /dev/hd8 is just a file, not a special
file for the hard disk driver.  You need to do the following first:

	mknod /dev/hd8 b 3 8

(I think the major number is 3 - don't have Minix handy).  Then do
your fsck.  What you have done is to create a 16Meg file called
/dev/hd8 with a minix filesystem in it instead of creating a 16Meg
filesystem on a separate hard disk partition.

--Brian