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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: FDISK 3.3 Extended DOS Partition for Creating a Minix Partition
Message-ID: <1507@botter.cs.vu.nl>
Date: Wed, 24-Jun-87 09:49:27 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 24 09:49:27 1987
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In article <3123@eagle.ukc.ac.uk> rde@ukc.ac.uk (R.D.Eager) writes:
>One  thing I noticed while reading through the MINIX sources is that the
>DISKFIX program probably doesn't work right on DOS 3.x hard disks.

DISKFIX has been a constant source of problems.  If somebody who understands
how partitions work would write a little C program that runs on MINIX and
allows the user to create and delete partitions of whatever type he wants
that would be very useful.  The program probably would only be a couple
of pages, but requires some understanding of how the partition table is
laid out.

Andy Tanenbaum