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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Changing hard disk partitions
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Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
References: <1991Apr12.094520.9660@hollie.rdg.dec.com> <1991Apr13.164855.1252@virtech.uucp>
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 91 19:44:10 GMT

In article <1991Apr13.164855.1252@virtech.uucp> cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
> for a 140MB disk I would compine /root and /usr so that they share 
> tmp space.

And I'd suggest the opposite for any disk over 40 MB. Why combine them?

> You can remove the dos partition, but you cannot change the size of the unix
> partition

You can also turn the DOS partition into a UNIX partition, since the partition
start is an absolute offset from the start of the disk just edit
/etc/partitions appropriately and mkfs. ("just" he says).
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