From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Blaz Antonic Subject: Re: Elks Distribution Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 17:25:46 -0700 Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3CF8148A.67D6@havn.com> References: Reply-To: blaz.antonic@havn.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Riley Williams Cc: linux-8086@vger.kernel.org > Blaz: Does this assumption sound logical to you? Riley, it sounds just fine but i'm not your FS guy :) If Alan (Cox) gets some free time he might be able to provide you with better answers. > I don't know enough about the format of the minix file system to know > whether these calculations actually make sense, so can only present what > the code tells me. Perhaps you should go to your local library and try to borrow the book on Minix design ? I was unable to find a (decent or not) description of minixfs on the Net. > 4. If the target device's rdev is either 0300 or 0340 then mkfs just > refuses to operate. I presume those are bda and bdb respectively, > in which case it is correct to refuse to write directly to those. I guess you are right but in order to make sure you should check /dev directory entires for these two devices (btw, same thing should happen when target device is hdX or sdX entry). Blaz Antonic