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From: grwalter@watfun.uwaterloo.ca (Fred Walter)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: does /dev/hd0 really ignore the partition table ?
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Date: 22 Aug 90 19:42:33 GMT
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price@mandala.unl.edu (Chad Price) writes:
>My memory of Minix is that /dev/hd0 treats the ENTIRE disk as a Minix
>partition, regardless of the partition table.

Is this true ? I haven't MINIX yet, but when I get it I plan on having two
partitions; one for DOS and one for MINIX. If I have to worry about
trashing the DOS partition though...

I can avoid writing to /dev/hd0 directly, but does anything else use that
the might be buggy enough to write where it shouldn't ?

	fred