Disk Partitions in XENIX and DOS

Larry Snyder larry at nstar.UUCP
Wed May 2 20:31:17 AEST 1990


In article <183 at nat-3.UUCP>, root at nat-3.UUCP (nat-3 System Administrator) writes:
> 	I am using a system that has an 8 Mb MS-DOS 4.0 partition and
> a 33 Mb XENIX-386 2.3.2 partition on an ST-251-1 disk drive.  DOS's
> FDISK shows partition 1 being a DOS partition and partition 2 being
> a XENIX partition.  Fine.  But XENIX's fdisk and Ontrack's Disk
> Manager report that the XENIX partition is on partition 4.  What is
> going on?

maybe they are numbering the partitions differently.

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