Subject: Re: Formatting a drive
To: Bill Studenmund , Frederick Bruckman <fb@enteract.com>
From: Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 02/21/2001 17:41:13
At 5:50 PM -0800 2/20/01, Bill Studenmund wrote:
>On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
>
> > The original poster said he wanted to use the whole disk for /usr.
> > Isn't there a default disk label for disks that have no Apple
> > Partition Map? If that's the case -- "disklabel sd1" shows a partition
> > besides "c" -- then all he has to do is newfs that partition.
>
>Mac68k systems ALWAYS have the whole disk as partition c, regardless of
>the partition map or disklabel on there.

Just an odd thought:  Could you newfs the c partition and mount it to 
use the whole disk as a single partition?  Probably something would 
object. . .


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