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From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: UNIX PC and multiple filesystems?
Message-ID: <7602@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 12-Oct-87 12:52:37 EDT
Article-I.D.: steinmet.7602
Posted: Mon Oct 12 12:52:37 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 14-Oct-87 00:36:37 EDT
References: <62@quincy.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
Lines: 20
Keywords: filesystem, unix-pc, df, partition
Summary: you won't like it
Xref: mnetor comp.sys.att:1470 comp.unix.questions:4502 comp.unix.wizards:4847

In article <62@quincy.UUCP> lenny@quincy.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano) writes:
|Does anyone out there know of a way to bypass the "default" hard disk
|partitioning on the UNIX PC?  By default the UNIX PC partitions the
|entire disk (minus the swap space) into the root "/" filesystem/partition.
|I would like to divide it up into a /, /usr, /u.  Maybe even a fourth, like
|/backup for a unmounted partition to keep backups of programs? 
|
|Can anyone point me in the right direction, using "mkfs"?  How can I use
|it to make other partitions on something already formatted with "/" only?

You won't like the fix... you use 'iv' to pull the descriptor block of
the hard disk. Use an editor to change the values. Use 'iv' again to
write the header and create the filesystems. Now do a cold boot and
reload everything!

Hopefully there's a better way.
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me