barbour@spot.colorado.EDU (BARBOUR JIM) (10/21/89)
I am trying to setup a lab of zenith Z150 XT class machines. I want very
much to be able to partition our 20 MB hard drives so that I can load the
root file system into /dev/hd3
I am having these problems:
1. mkfs /dev/hd0 20000 # twenty-thousand
fails.
2. I can set up partitions from 0 to 150, 151 - 250, 251 - 260 and
mkfs /dev/hd1 5000. However, mkfs /dev/hd2 3000 fails with several
"Read: Unrecoverable disk error at block X"
messages.
Unfortunately, I do not know how many cylinders the disks have or anything
else about their geometry. I can make 10 MB file systems on them though.
Any suggestions from anyone? PLEASE?????
Jim Barbourstailey@iris613.gsfc.nasa.gov (Ken Stailey) (10/22/89)
In article <13026@boulder.Colorado.EDU> barbour@spot.colorado.EDU (BARBOUR JIM) writes: >[stuff deleted] I want very >much to be able to partition our 20 MB hard drives so that I can load the >root file system into /dev/hd3 > >I am having these problems: > >1. mkfs /dev/hd0 20000 # twenty-thousand > fails. I don't think that you can mkfs /dev/hd0. Why do you want to do this if /dev/hd3 is the target disk for the root file system? INET stailey@iris613.gsfc.nasa.gov UUCP {backbone}!dftsrv!iris613!stailey