From: Robert Cooper (cooper@s1.elec.uq.oz.au)
Date: 09/16/93


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....