Re: Filesystem creation

Riley Williams
2002-05-14T17:59:53Z

Hi Alan.

>>> That would break the expected but daft old Unix API

>> I have to admit that I didn't even know there was a Unix API to
>> break and from a personal viewpoint I'd be a lot more interested in
>> building compatibility to the current Linux system on the assumption
>> that if the API is important in the Unix world as a whole, then
>> Linux will already follow it, and if Linux doesn't, then the API
>> can't be that important.

> Linux fdisk/mkfs also behave the same wacky way

Now you have me puzzled - I don't remember ever having to specify the
partition size when running any of the Linux mkfs commands. Perhaps you
could remind me what I'm missing please?

mke2fs /dev/hda3

mkdosfs /dev/hdb2

For some reason, both of those commands worked fine earlier today...

Best wishes from Riley.