10-25-2005
You can build a Linux kernel, I'm pretty sure, that will support the SCO file system.
Also, see this web discussion.
Quote:
For now you can do the following:
simply create a SCO filesystem on a raw partition manually, Linux will be
able to mount that filesystem, and so will SCO.
"mdev hd" is a script that runs fdisk, then divvy, then mkfs (among other
things)
The easiest way to go would be to run mkdev hd to add a new hard drive,
(this creates the /dev/hdxxx device files for you) then determine the
device name for your new raw partition (or whole drive for that metter,
you actually do not need any partitions at all, not even one that takes up
the whole drive)
then dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hd10 (for whole 2nd ide drive for instance)
then mkfs -f HTFS /dev/hd10
then mkdir /d2
then mount -f HTFS /dev/hd10 /d2
then to copy your "u" filesystem,
cd /u; tar cf - . | (cd /d2 ;tar xf -)
then in Linux:
mkdir /d2
modprobe sysv
mount -t sysv /dev/hdb /d2
Note: if Linux can't read the HTFS filesystem, you may need to try
substituting one of the following until it works. I know for a fact Linux
reads Xenix just fine, but Xenix fs has yucky limitations like 14
character name length
AFS Acer Fast Filesystem
DTFS Desktop Filesystem
EAFS Extended Acer Fast Filesystem
HTFS High Throughput Filesystem
S51KB AT&T UNIX(R) System V 1KB Filesystem
XENIX XENIX(R) filesystem
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mkfs.minix
MKFS.MINIX(8) System Administration MKFS.MINIX(8)
NAME
mkfs.minix - make a Minix filesystem
SYNOPSIS
mkfs.minix [-c|-l filename] [-n namelength] [-i inodecount] [-v] device [size-in-blocks]
DESCRIPTION
mkfs.minix creates a Linux MINIX filesystem on a device (usually a disk partition).
The device is usually of the following form:
/dev/hda[1-8] (IDE disk 1)
/dev/hdb[1-8] (IDE disk 2)
/dev/sda[1-8] (SCSI disk 1)
/dev/sdb[1-8] (SCSI disk 2)
The size-in-blocks parameter is the desired size of the file system, in blocks. It is present only for backwards compatibility. If omit-
ted the size will be determined automatically. Only block counts strictly greater than 10 and strictly less than 65536 are allowed.
OPTIONS
-c Check the device for bad blocks before creating the filesystem. If any are found, the count is printed.
-n namelength
Specify the maximum length of filenames. Currently, the only allowable values are 14 and 30. The default is 30. Note that kernels
older than 0.99p7 only accept namelength 14.
-i inodecount
Specify the number of inodes for the filesystem.
-l filename
Read the list of bad blocks from filename. The file has one bad-block number per line. The count of bad blocks read is printed.
-1 Make a Minix version 1 filesystem.
-2, -v Make a Minix version 2 filesystem.
-3 Make a Minix version 3 filesystem.
EXIT CODES
The exit code returned by mkfs.minix is one of the following:
0 No errors
8 Operational error
16 Usage or syntax error
SEE ALSO
mkfs(8), fsck(8), reboot(8)
AVAILABILITY
The mkfs.minix command is part of the util-linux package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
util-linux June 2011 MKFS.MINIX(8)