Another fdisk partition for 386/ix.

Liam R. E. Quin lee at sq.sq.com
Sun Nov 19 07:30:57 AEST 1989


In article <4244 at dell.dell.com> jrh at mustang.dell.com (jrh) writes:
>386/ix has a 'fdisk' program to do this.

It seems worth pointing out that you have to arrange for Unix to do
something with the new partition.
Remember the "fdisk" partition number, so that you can refer to the
partition from Unix.  You can then use mkfs and mount, and can arrange
for the new partition to be mounted automatically.

Again, remember to specify the end cylinder (not a percentage), and
to ensure that the end cylinder is one less thatn the start of the
next partition!  (fdisk shouldn't let you create overlapping partitions,
but it does...).

Lee
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Liam R. Quin, Unixsys (UK) Ltd [note: not an employee of "sq" - a visitor!]
lee at sq.com (Whilst visiting Canada from England)
lee at anduk.co.uk (Upon my return to England at Christmas)



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