From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Subject: Filesystem creation Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 23:23:39 -200 Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200205112122.g4BLMat08562@bele.abc.se> Return-path: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-8086@vger.kernel.org Hello. As being new to this list, first a short introduction: Living 15 km outside the nearest town with my woman and four cats. Working as a lathe-turner in town. I have been interested in and tinkered with computers since the late seventies, more actively since late eighties. Could afford to buy my first DOS-box (second hand XT) -89. Since then the zoo has grown a bit. Installed Linux for the first time somewhere late -98. Got LRP running on an old crappy 386 to network my modem a year later. Fiddel with muLinux now and then. Never done any serious programming of any sort, just small bits and pieces in Basic, Pascal, assembler, DOS batch, shellscript. Enough of this. I was glad when I found out about ELKS a while ago (2-3 yrs) and even gladder to see that there now are ready-to-go floppy images. I'm trying to run the image "comb" on an IBM PS/2-30. It boots OK and runs as I expect. But when I try to make a file system on the harddisk and mount it, I bump into something. fdisk reports 773 cyl, 2 heads, 27 sec. /dev/bda1 * 0 1 6 1 27 385 1 20520 /dev/bda2 * 0 1 386 1 27 695 80 16740 /dev/bda3 * 0 1 696 1 27 772 80 4158 mkfs /dev/bda2 5859 finishes OK, but a following fsck /dev/bda2 produces an error message, fsck: bad magic number in super-block. If I reduce the number of blocks by one, to 5858, fsck finishes without error message. Mounting the new fs under /mnt goes OK, but ls /mnt gives error messages. /mnt: Bad inode number on dev 0302: 3677 is out of range Bad inode number on dev 0302: 11330 is out of range (some garbage on this line) Trying to repair the fs with fsck -a desn't seem to do any good. If I reduce the number of blocks further, down to 5666, I get no error messages anywhere. Mounting, unmounting, making directories, copying files seems to work OK. Did I bump into anything but my own ignorance? I realize I know too little about the minix fs. Google produces a lot of links but the first few pages contained no link to a spec. Anybody got a good URL to a little detail on minix fs? Regards, Lars Does steel wool come from metal sheep? Net-Tamer V 1.10.1 - Registered