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Subject: Re: Help ! mount:File table oveflow (MacMinix)
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Date: 22 Mar 91 22:15:11 GMT
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mings@cs.uoregon.edu (Ming Yau So) wrote:
> 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.

Increase NR_SUPERS in "fs/const.h" to 10, and there you go....

Fred.