From: amartell@nyx.cs.du.edu (Alex Martelli) Subject: Re: making file system (quick) Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 08:32:15 GMT
ppc1@cec2.wustl.edu (Peter Pui Tak Chiu) writes:
...
>i tried to make file system but it doesn't work.
>i have a 110MB harddisk and i use the whole thing as one partition for LINUX
>then i did: mkfs /dev/hda1 147700 (something like that)
>and it said that the limit of the number of blocks is 65535.
It is, for the default Minix filesystem.
>so how can i utilize the whole hard disk for linux?
>do i have to make several partitions?
Either that, or use the extended filesystem, which, however, is still
considered to be in alpha-test by its author. Amongst its advantages,
besides large partitions, are long filenames (Minix filesystem is
limited to 14 character filenames); among its disadvantages, allegedly,
are possibble unreliability, and slower performance than the Minix
filesystem (I'm using it exclusively, and have had no problems nor
unacceptable performance on my speedy machine, but, there are no
guarantees - still, you'll be fine if you backup regularly:-). Please
don't mail to ask how to get the extended filesystem, just look in
the alphatest directory or whatever ftp-server you're getting
Linux from, under some monicker such as "efs*"...
Alex