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From: alexis@panix.uucp (Alexis Rosen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: Multiple Mac Partitions under AUX
Keywords: Mac volume multiple partitions
Message-ID: <1991Apr27.070405.13571@panix.uucp>
Date: 27 Apr 91 07:04:05 GMT
References: <1991Apr17.232019.16018@oakhill.sps.mot.com> <1991Apr18.071816.4503@verity.com> <6613@s3.ireq.hydro.qc.ca>
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lamarche@ireq.hydro.qc.ca (Louis Lamarche) writes:
>I have formated a 650M Dynatek drive with the "50% A/UX, 50% MacOS" model with
>Silverlining. This gives 9 partitions. Using "dp" I get
>
> [...]
>
>Now, you must link the physical partition on the disk to a disk devices
>
>pname -a -c2 -d0 -s1 "Unreserved 1"
>
>this will create /etc/ptab making the link "Unreserved 1" <-> /dev/dsk/c2d0s1

This will work but you're better off using slice 3 (and then 4 if you need
another). This is because slice 1 is usually a Swap partition. I don't _think_
you're actually risking anything here, but I wouldn't chance it. The MacOS
startup shell is badly broken in this respect, and I don't trust it not to
do funny things to any slice 1 it happens to meet.

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Alexis Rosen
Owner/Sysadmin, PANIX Public Access Unix, NY
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