Subject: Re: Is this a new disk problem?
To: Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 07/09/1998 17:13:43
Henry B. Hotz wrote:
> At 4:29 PM -0700 7/9/98, Colin Wood wrote:
> >Hmmmm...well, if one of those partitions could be backed up (or you don't
> >mind possibly losing the contents :-), you might try re-zapping one with
> >Mkfs (but not rerunning mkfs, if that makes sense).  I don't think this
> >will hurt anything, but others will know far more about this than I do.
> >
> You mean use mkfs to set the partition type?

yes.  (sorry for being somewhat confusing ;-)
 
> Since that didn't used to be possible I never got in the habit.  I just
> made sure that HD SC Setup set the proper partition type.  In the case of
> sd3 it comes back to me that I made the two partitions usr 4 and usr 5, or
> something like that.  I did not make them root, or root&usr partitions
> since I only have one root partition!
> 
> I suspect that accounts for the unknown partition type, now that I think of it.

probably so.  i think we only recognize up to type 3 or something like
that.

later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - PMD                 Intel Corporation
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