Subject: Re: 8 Gig disk partition limit
To: Bob Nestor <rnestor@augustmail.com>
From: Donald Lee <donlee_68k@icompute.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/10/2000 00:27:53
At 1:03 AM -0600 1/9/00, Bob Nestor wrote:
>Donald Lee  (donlee_68k@icompute.com) wrote:
>
>>I have a desire now to go in and hack Mkfs a little so it could simply
>>allow me to convert hfs partitions, without requiring at least one
>>unix fs on the disk.  Maybe I'll get ambitious tomorrow. ;->
>
>I'm not sure what you were seeing here, but that's not the way I remember 
>Mkfs working. When I was testing those changes I always started with a 
>disk that had nothing but HFS partitions. Just what version were you 
>using?

I have two versions, both from the NetBSD 1.4.1 68K package.  One has
the little red devil icon, and no obvious "version", but I think it's
the 1.46 version that fixed the problems with Linux-ized filesystems.
The other is 1.45 (generic icon).  I was using 1.46 when I did what
I described.

-dgl-