Re: Elks Distribution

[neil.holmes@zoom.co.uk]

I may have caused confusion here. I have, indeed, been 
using type 81 for my fs type. I had problems early on, I 
thought with type 80, and slipped into using 81 back then. 
81 has been working fine for me. If 80 is what it should be 
then I will revisit this area and make the necessary 
amendments. 

Sorry if I have caused some confusion.

Neil

Quoting Riley Williams <rhw@InfraDead.Org>:

> Hi Stefan.
> 
> > I tryed type 80 do, but it gets an not minix fs too. 
Some other
> > person helped me with changing the scripts (mounting 
the image as
> > loopback device), cause it maybe had something to do 
with the
> > harddisk itself, i got thru the installation with a 
harddisksize of
> > 5,5mb but the thing wouldn't unmount and ended up in 
errors. We
> > modified the scripts so that we could manually could 
unmount & cat
> > the bootsector, but machine didn't liked it... I didn't 
fdisk in
> > DOS... but if needed, i will do this. Btw in the 
documents of Neil
> > is type 81 used instand of type 80.
> 
> Here's the table from the fdisk source in the elkscmd 
package:
> 
> " 0 Empty                  3c PartitionMagic recovery 85 
Linux
> extended\n"
> " 1 FAT12                  40 Venix 80286             86 
NTFS volume
> set\n"
> " 2 XENIX root             41 PPC PReP Boot           87 
NTFS volume
> set\n"
> " 3 XENIX usr              42 SFS                     93 
Amoeba\n"
> " 4 FAT16 <32M             4d QNX4.x                  94 
Amoeba BBT\n"
> " 5 Extended               4e QNX4.x 2nd part         a0 
IBM Thinkpad
> hibernate\n"
> " 6 FAT16                  4f QNX4.x 3rd part         a5 
BSD/386\n"
> " 7 HPFS/NTFS              50 OnTrack DM              a6 
OpenBSD\n"
> " 8 AIX                    51 OnTrack DM6 Aux1        a7 
NeXTSTEP\n"
> " 9 AIX bootable           52 CP/M                    b7 
BSDI fs\n"
> " a OS/2 Boot Manager      53 OnTrack DM6 Aux3        b8 
BSDI swap\n"
> " b Win9x FAT32            54 OnTrack DM6             c1 
DR-DOS/sec
> FAT-12\n"
> " c Win9x FAT32 (LBA)      55 EZ-Drive                c4 
DR-DOS/sec
> FAT-16 <32M\n"
> " e Win9x FAT16 (LBA)      56 Golden Bow              c6 
DR-DOS/sec
> FAT-16\n"
> " f Win9x Extended (LBA)   5c Priam Edisk             c7 
Syrinx\n"
> "10 OPUS                   61 SpeedStor               db 
CP/M / CTOS /
> ...\n"
> "11 Hide FAT12             63 GNU HURD or SysV        e1 
DOS access\n"
> "12 Compaq diagnostics     64 Novell Netware 286      e3 
DOS R/O\n"
> "14 Hide FAT16 <32M        65 Novell Netware 386      e4 
SpeedStor\n"
> "16 Hide FAT16             70 DiskSecure Multi-Boot   eb 
BeOS fs\n"
> "17 Hide HPFS/NTFS         75 PC/IX                   f1 
SpeedStor\n"
> "18 AST Windows swapfile   80 ELKS / Old Minix        f2 
DOS
> secondary\n"
> "1b Hide Win9x FAT32       81 New Minix / Old Linux   f4 
SpeedStor\n"
> "1c Hide Win9x FAT32 (LBA) 82 Linux swap              fd 
Linux raid
> autodetect\n"
> "1e Hide Win9x FAT16 (LBA) 83 New Linux               fe 
LANstep\n"
> "24 NEC DOS                84 OS/2 Hide C:            ff 
BBT\n"
> 
> I synchronised that against the Linux fdisk a while back, 
using the
> table included in the fdisk distributed with Red Hat 
Linux 6.2. The
> format used by ELKS for the minixfs file system is that 
referred to as
> "ELKS / Old Minix" in the above table, type 80, and has 
the same 32M
> limit.
> 
> The type 81 (New Minix) filesystem apparently has several 
restrictions
> relaxed, not least the restrictions of not more than 256 
users and
> groups. My understanding is that elksfs was supposed to 
be an
> implementation of the "New Minix" file system, but was 
never finished.
> 
> Best wishes from Riley.
> 
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