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From: hall@cod.NOSC.MIL (Robert R. Hall)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: 1.5.0 #32 - tools
Message-ID: <1734@cod.NOSC.MIL>
Date: 27 Dec 89 19:40:20 GMT
References: <4964@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
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The parts munged at this site are: 15, 22, 24, 33, 37 and 38.
Since Glen Overby say they arrived at his site intact and I
do have FTP privileges I will try there first but I will wait
until the late evening hours to do so.

The problem I encountered in patch tools/fsck is the small size
for my /tmp directory I got for a response:

MINIX> patch < fsck.cdif
Hmm...  Looks like a new-style context diff to me...
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|*** /home/top/ast/minix/1.3/tools/fsck.c	Mon Sep 26 13:03:34 1988
|--- /home/top/ast/minix/1.5.0/tools/fsck.c	Sat Dec 23 15:22:58 1989
--------------------------
No space on root device 1/0
patch: can't write temp file.

But this is such a big file I can't even patch it manually using mined
with out first splitting it.  No big deal though, I just kermit the
source file and cdiff file back to the VAX computer and patch it under
UNIX.
Question: is there any options to get patch to reassign where it uses
it's tmp space from?

My recommendation is can fsck be split into 3 modules: fsck mkfs and menu.
Even better yet since Minix is now stable and I don't use the mkfs and
fsck at boot time features (I prefer the command versions) I wish to
recommend that they be dropped.

Robert R. Hall
hall@nosc.mil