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- From: doug@rocker.uucp (Doug Luecke)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Convert old DOS partition to UNIX under ISC?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.041521.20701@rocker.uucp>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 04:15:21 GMT
- Organization: Terzon Systems, Inc., Richardson, Texas
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- Hey net gurus -
-
- I have a 200MB IDE drive in my 386 box that currently has an 80MB DOS
- partition and a 120MB UNIX partition that I've got ISC 2.0 running on.
- I'd like to get rid of the DOS partition (yeah, rah, sis-boom-bah) and
- use it for UNIX without having to backup and reinstall my whole system.
-
- So, the big question is:
- Is there a way to format the partition for UNIX, and then mount it on
- my existing filesystem? I know how to use fdisk to delete the DOS
- partition and then create a UNIX partition in its place. What I can't
- figure out is how to format it and access it as a mountable file system.
-
- There seems to be a way to add another physical disk drive to an existing
- system using the sysadm diskmgmt menus. But from what I've found, it
- seems the folks at Interactive expect you to use only a single UNIX
- partition per drive.
-
- Anybody done this before?
-
- Any and all help is greatly appreciated.
- doug
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