Subject: Re: pfdisk/pdisk (was Re: trying to disklabel and newfs sd1)
To: None <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
From: Chris Brown <chrsbrwn@mindspring.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 08/18/1999 21:57:24
On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 11:28:02AM -0700, David A. Gatwood wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> > Does pdisk let you edit partitions, or create them on a blank disk?
> 
> Both.  You can't resize partitions safely (well, you could, but it won't
> fix the contents), but you can certainly delete and create partitions,
> reodred the partition table, create a new partition table, etc.
> 

Very true. It's a very useful utility. The only thing it doesn't do, that
you might need, is install a MacOS driver and create the necessary
partitions for the driver to work. You can still use the hacked HD SC Setup
(or some other Mac OS formatter) to do that, though.

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Chris Brown -- Macintosh networking/Web development
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