From: David Le Blanc (david@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au)
Date: 07/20/92 

From: david@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au (David Le Blanc)
Subject: Re: mkfs (in version 0.96c) barfs on my 486-33 340MB HD system
Date: 21 Jul 1992 03:25:09 GMT

RVK@psuvm.psu.edu writes:

>boot and root floppies and tried "mkfs -c /dev/hda2 65536" since the current

This is a bug in mkfs, It will not allow you to specify 65536. Try 65535.
(65536 as a short int is 0!)

>Atul Ramani
>PSUVM
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