From: cooper@s1.elec.uq.oz.au (Robert Cooper) Subject: Re: weird fdisk on slackware bootdisk Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1993 00:27:35 GMT
bf703@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Patrick J. Volkerding) writes:
>In a previous article, pit@gccs.imp.com (Peter Berger) says:
>>
>>What I'm interested in now, is what fdisk is this? (I mean from
>>what package? So I can avoid ever trying this version...).
>>
>First of all, I have not had the problem you describe. The fdisk used on
>the Slackware bootdisk is one I compiled from the latest sources in
>/pub/linux/sources/sbin on tsx-11.mit.edu. It is version 1.4, and is
>newer than the ones I've seen with SLS (I think it uses fdisk 1.1
>alpha).
>Have other people experienced trouble with this version of fdisk?
Well I don't know if this is an fdisk problem or a mke2fs
problem, but after creating partitions greater than 70MB
I was unable to format them, kept saying can't find block
for inode table....
Rob....