Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!bu.edu!purdue!haven!udel!mmdf
From: LISO1.dnet.ge.com!HIGGINS@ge-dab.ge.com (Sean C. Higgins 8*259-2073)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: RE: does /dev/hd0 really ignore the partition table ?
Message-ID: <28251@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
Date: 23 Aug 90 14:47:44 GMT
Sender: mmdf@ee.udel.edu
Lines: 18

>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

     If you are afraid of writing to /dev/hd0, rename is to something like
/dev/HARD_DRIVE_0.  That way you still have it available and nothing will use
it by mistake...

                       Sean