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From: stephane@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr (Stephane Guillard)
Subject: Re: Hiding the Amax icon under Workbench
Message-ID: <1991Jun28.084317.9669@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr>
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1991 08:43:17 GMT
References: <1991Jun25.215053.2279@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1991Jun25.234156.708@nic.csu.net> <1991Jun27.185405.8885@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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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:
>>>
>>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.

    I have tried this for both the AMAX partition and the IBeM partition and
    IT DOES WORK : no loss of data.
>
>-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


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