cs304pal@rata.vuw.ac.nz (Lloyd Parkes) (10/11/89)
In my previous posting, I may have appeared quite pleased with the way I got DOS's fdisk 3.3 to handle my miniz partitions. Well, last night I booted up minix (I have been rearranging all my DOS backups over the last few days, hence try to find another few megs for DOS on my hard drive), and I got the message mount: /dev/hd7 invalid file system. After swearing profusely, I decided perhaps it's the system id byte in the partition table. Nope, tested that, no go. So I had a look at the contents of hd7, no magics numbers anywhere, and some suspiciously DOS looking pieces of text. I think oh dear did I put the DOS partition on hd7 instead of hd6? But no, it wasn't that, then I noticed that hd6 (created by DOS), overlapped hd7 (already there, created by??) by one cylinder. This is not so bad, except that I filled up hd6, this trashed the super-block, the inode map and the zone map. Obviously, this isn't my root partition, instead it's the device I mount on /u :-( bad karma. I have everything on DOS floppies somewhere, but this is obviously a pain in the backside. The moral(s) of this story. 1) Do not use DOS's fdisk. 2) Do not put DOS on your hard drive. 3) Use DOS to play Jet & your Infocom games only. 4) Shoot a microsoft programmer today. Lloyd Quick, send your money to cs304pal@rata.vuw.ac.nz now! If you think anyone believes what I have just said, then you must be daft in the head!