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- From: ahahma@polaris.utu.fi (Arno Hahma)
- Subject: Re: ISC 3.0 multiple FDISK partitions?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.141726.18649@polaris.utu.fi>
- Organization: University of Turku
- References: <BxKEKD.v0@ad4su1.rsre.mod.uk> <BxKy06.E2s@maxed.amg.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 14:17:26 GMT
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- In article <BxKy06.E2s@maxed.amg.com> root@maxed.amg.com
- (0000-Admin(0000)) writes:
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- >In article <BxKEKD.v0@ad4su1.rsre.mod.uk>
- druid%caercn@ajax.rsre.mod.uk (ad4su1) writes:
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- >>I would also like to use the third partition for ISC, as a home partition.
-
- >>Is this possible?
-
- Sure!
-
- >> Mark.
-
- >Your 3rd partition is unuseable from your 2nd unix partition, since it
- >is a "hard" parition not a soft partition as is used for filesystems
-
- Although it is a hard partition, you can use mkfs to make a filesystem
- on it (provided you have partitioned the disk correctly) and then
- mount the partition normally. "man mkfs" will tell you how to use the
- command, or you might also use mkvffs for a different filesystem.
- After you have made the filesystem, just mount it somewhere you wish.
- To do that automatically, you will have to edit some of the rc?.d
- -files (grep -ni mount rc?.?), that are executed when the machine is
- booted (I think the rc -files are in /etc, do a "find / -name rc?.?
- -print" to find them, if I remembered incorrect).
-
- >If you wish to access the space you will need to repartition the 2nd
- >and 3rd as one, and then restore.
-
- I would do so as well. Although the system will work with more than
- one hard partition, why do it so difficultly. I think it is more clear
- to have one hard partition/hard drive (unless you have the MS-DOS on
- your disk).
-
- >Ed Whittemore uunet!maxed!ed ed@maxed.amg.com
- >American Micro Group, Inc. 201-944-3293
-
- ArNO
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