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From: Anton A. <ai...@ca...> - 2002-07-16 08:30:35
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At 08:20 16/07/02, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: >On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > > At 17:25 15/07/02, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: > > > > > > >- create file(s) [unfortunately sparse files don't work w/ mkntfs] > > > > > > why? > > > > >mkntfs -f -F 100M > > > > >mkntfs v1.6.99 > > > > >ERROR: 100M is not a block device. > > > > >mkntfs forced anyway. > > > > >ERROR: Error: device is too small (103kiB). Minimum NTFS volume size > > > > >is 1MiB. > > > > >Aborting... > > > > Ok, this _sould_ now work (it does for me). If you could try it, too, it > > would be great. > >Yes, now it's ok, thanks. Here is a quick summary how different fs's >handle sparse files and 0 bytes size file if volume size is specified. > > sparse file 0 byte file but given fs size >XFS + - >JFS - - >ext[23] +(F,i) +(F,i) >reiserfs +(f) - >ntfs +(F) +(F) > >F: only if -F (force) given >f: only if -f (force) given >i: it asks to proceed or not Great! Thanks for the info. So we are closest to ext[23] which is good IMO. Anton -- "I've not lost my mind. It's backed up on tape somewhere." - Unknown -- Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cantab.net> (replace at with @) Linux NTFS Maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.openprojects.net WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ & http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/ |
