Changing hard disk partitions

[Peter da Silva]

In article <1991Apr13.164855.1252 at virtech.uucp> cpcahil at virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
> for a 140MB disk I would compine /root and /usr so that they share 
> tmp space.

And I'd suggest the opposite for any disk over 40 MB. Why combine them?

> You can remove the dos partition, but you cannot change the size of the unix
> partition

You can also turn the DOS partition into a UNIX partition, since the partition
start is an absolute offset from the start of the disk just edit
/etc/partitions appropriately and mkfs. ("just" he says).
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