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- From: mikebo@timesink.chi.il.us (Michael Borowiec)
- Subject: Re: ISC 3.0 multiple FDISK partitions?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.062326.19981@timesink.chi.il.us>
- Organization: HAM Radio Station N9EUZ, Naperville, IL
- References: <BxKEKD.v0@ad4su1.rsre.mod.uk>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 06:23:26 GMT
- Lines: 59
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- In article <BxKEKD.v0@ad4su1.rsre.mod.uk> druid%caercn@ajax.rsre.mod.uk (ad4su1) writes:
- >On my hard disk I have three *real* partitions---i.e., created with FDISK.
- >The first is for DOS, the second for ISC 3.0, the third is spare.
- >I would also like to use the third partition for ISC, as a home partition.
- >
- >Is this possible?
-
- Yes, use /dev/dsk/0p3
-
- >
- >It seems to me that ISC only ever looks at the first UNIX partition,
- >which it divides into several of what it calls partitions. I am not
- >able to re-FDISK at this stage and thus merge the second and third
- >partitions.
- >
- >Can anyone suggest how I can make use of my third partition from UNIX?
- >
- > Regards and thanks,
- > Mark.
-
- Here is the poop on using DOS fdisk partitions in ISC UNIX >= 2.2 from
- the 2.2 release notes:
- /dev/dsk/...
- np0 Entire physical drive n
- np1 1st fdisk partition on drive n
- np2 2nd "
- np3 3rd "
- np4 4th "
- np5 1st extended DOS partition on drive n
- np6 2nd "
- ... etc, etc, through
- np15 11th extended DOS partition on drive n
-
- Additional info:
- ns0 Entire UNIX system partition on drive n
- (not the entire disk as it meant in 1.x releases of 386/ix)
- ns1 1st "soft" UNIX partition in the UNIX fdisk "hard" partition
- (usually root)
-
- The spec changed from 2.2.x to 3.0.x in that:
- /dev/dsk...
- c0d0s3 <= 2.2.x syntax for Controller 0, Disk 0, Slice 3 (usually /usr)
- c0t0s3 >= 3.0.x syntax for Controller 0, Target 0, Slice 3
-
- I had configured my 2nd fdisk partition as a 64MB DOS partition. Since
- I didn't need it as a DOS parition any longer, I simply did a mkfs,
- labelit and mount and, voila... I have a new 64MB UNIX partition I
- mount as /dev/dsk/0p2. Works like a champ...
- - Mike
-
- PS> Get 3.0.1 or 3.0 Update disk FD3.0S.3 to be able to mount DOS 4/5
- (or Compaq DOS 3.31) partitions greater than 32MB under UNIX like:
- mount -f DOS /dev/dsk/0s? /dos
-
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