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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU!rabbit.physiol.unimelb.edu.au!dml From: dml@rabbit.physiol.unimelb.edu.au (David Leask) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: mtools on 'Big' dos partition Date: 4 Jun 1993 02:51:43 GMT Organization: University of Melbourne Lines: 20 Message-ID: <1umdbvINNab5@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU> NNTP-Posting-Host: rabbit.physiol.unimelb.edu.au X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0] I would like to use mtools on my DOS partition but the patches to mtools I have only accept a DOS-16 (type 4) partition. In the partition table, mine is marked as type 6 (primary 'big' dos - whatever that means). I altered find_partition() so it also would accept type 6 partitions and reading from the DOS area (mdir and mcopy) seemed to work fine Im not game enough to try and write to the DOS area until Im sure mtools knows what it is doing with a type 6 partition. What I want to know is: Is this just a new way of saying a DOS-16 partition? Is the difference anything to do with the old 32MB restriction on DOS partition sizes? Will I clober my DOS filesystem if I try to write using mtools this way? Any clues? ... Anyone? Any and all help greatly appreciated -David