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From: gpotts@oregon.uoregon.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Hiding the Amax icon under Workbench
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Date: 27 Jun 91 20:21:47 GMT
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In article <1991Jun27.185405.8885@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, bja20850@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (B.J. Anderson) writes:
> 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 :)
> 
> --
> I must remember to be cheerful and obedient.
> I must remember to be cheerful and obedient.
> I must remember to be cheerful and obedient.
> mail: bja20850@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu

That alert made me nervous as well but as I had little on my A-Max partition
at the time, I went ahead with the opperation fully expecting to have to
reformat the partition under A-Max and reinstall my software. Imagine my
surprize when, next time I started A-Max, it booted right up off the partition
and all data was there intact. It worked for me -- son't lnow why, just that
it did. Good luck.

--geoff