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From: hcj@lzaz.ATT.COM (HC Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: /dev/hd5
Summary: Dont change partition 5, Understand it.
Keywords: Minix-ST, use of /dev/hd5 as Minix-Filesystem
Message-ID: <424@lzaz.ATT.COM>
Date: 22 Feb 89 17:04:14 GMT
References: <689@sbsvax.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T ISL Lincroft NJ USA
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In article <689@sbsvax.UUCP>, roeder@sbsvax.UUCP (Edgar Roeder) writes:
> Last weekend i tried to address my SH205 as one Filesystem via /dev/hd5 under
> Minix.  When you address it as a single filesystem via minor number 5 the
> same sector 0 is now used to hold data. 
> My proposed solution is to use minor 5 to address the whole disk without sector
There are many ways to change stwini.c but please, not this way.
/dev/hd5 is the WHOLE disk, and is, in the UNIX(r) spirit, there to allow
backup of the whole thing.  If you want to add a new partitioning scheme
use hd6 and hd7 which are not implemented.  I prefer hd6, as it never
will be implemented on the ATARI, as it does bad blocks differently.

Howard C. Johnson
ATT Bell Labs
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