Re: comp.os.linux

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Date: Friday, March 27, 1992 - 3:50 am

The filesystem is still pretty similar to minix: the only addition is
the symbolic links. If you do not use symlinks, minix and linux
filesystems are totally interchangeable. There are some very minor
differences: minix always clears the inode->mode word when it deletes an
inode, and linux doesn't, so minix fsck will report some spurious error
messages for linux partitions, but that's no big deal (you can make the

Both are correct: it's decimal 65 and hex 41. Use decimal numbers for
most things (ls -l does), but when giving the whole device number as
one, it's usually easier to use hex. Thus /dev/hdb1 is (3,65) but also
0x0341 depending on what you want to do.

Linus

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