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- From: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit
- Subject: Re: Couple of Dell v2.2 questions
- Date: 7 Jan 1993 04:41:06 -0500
- Organization: The Programmers' Pit Stop, Ann Arbor MI
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- References: <1993Jan6.011449.2950@mark-one.inet-uk.co.uk>
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- In article <1993Jan6.011449.2950@mark-one.inet-uk.co.uk> mark@mark-one.inet-uk.co.uk (Mark Powell) writes:
- >However, this has pulled back the /etc/partitions
- >file from the old filesystem which is incorrect for the new resized root,
- >/home systems. How can I rebuild this file to reflect the new setup?
-
- You don't need to. /etc/partitions exists only for backward
- compatibility with SunOS, and isn't actually used by any of the SVR4
- software (except mkpart(1), but that only exists for SunOS
- compatibility too). All of the partitioning information that matters
- is stored in the VTOC, displayed with prtvtoc(1), and changed with
- edvtoc(1). If you really want to, prtvtoc has a "-e" flag to makes it
- read the VTOC and rewrite /etc/partitions from it.
-
- --
- Marc Unangst, N8VRH | "Of course, in order to understand this you
- mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us | have to remember that the nucleus of the atom
- | is squishy."
- | -W. Scheider, from a Physics lecture
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