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From: bja20850@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (B.J. Anderson)
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Subject: Re: Hiding the Amax icon under Workbench
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Date: 27 Jun 91 18:54:05 GMT
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rkent@sparc1.sparc1.csubak.edu (Rick Kent) writes:

>>jma@reef.cis.ufl.edu (John 'Vlad' Adams) writes:
>>
>>My 3000 automounts the hard drive that contains my AMAX partition.
>>How can I get all the information to fill a mountlist entry for
>>this partition???

I believe the above statement came from me (excluding the possibility of
a major coincidence :)  You shouldn't blame Mr. Adams for these silly
questions anyway :)

>If all you're trying to do is make the Icon for your Amax partition
>invisible, then go into HDTOOLBOX and change the file system that the
>partition is using.  Select "reserved" for the file system and voila -
>Under workbench 2.0, no icon will appear, and AMAX will continue to
>use the partition just as usual.
                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Are you absolutely sure??? Because when I go to save the afforementioned
change, HDToolbox warns of impending doom for all the data on my AMax
partition: 

Warning!  This operation will destroy the data in the following partitions:
AMAX:

I have no balls so I hit cancel.  Unless someone says otherwise, I'm going to
back up before I try this one.

-Beej (a spineless wimp at large :)

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