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Title: Mkfs.minix
Post by: defakto on April 13, 2005, 06:32:30 pm

When using mkfs.minix, part of busybox default util with opie, I can only get my 128 meg SD card to create a 64 meg drive, does anyone know if this is a limitation of mkfs.minix and should I use something else or is there something I'm missing?

*edit* typoed some numbers....corrected them

Title: Mkfs.minix
Post by: Stubear on April 13, 2005, 09:28:40 pm

Don't use Minix, you are better of with ext2 or ext3 or even jffs2

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The Minix FileSystem was the file system used by Minix, and was described in "Operating Systems: Their design and implementation" by AndrewTannenbaum.

The Minix file system had a number of limitations:

    * It couldn't address partitions larger than 64mb
    * It had a maximum limit of 32 chars on filenames
    * etc

The Minix File system was used a lot on floppies where it's overhead was low. It's design also leant itself to being a file within the FileSystem of the host OperatingSystem when Minix was run as a process within another OperatingSystem.

Stu

Title: Mkfs.minix
Post by: defakto on April 13, 2005, 09:48:09 pm

Ok, makes much more sense now.  THanks