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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Changing hard disk partitions
Message-ID: <WIZAOJB@xds13.ferranti.com>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
References: <1991Apr12.094520.9660@hollie.rdg.dec.com> <1991Apr25.032927.407@virtech.uucp>
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 91 17:47:57 GMT

In article <1991Apr25.032927.407@virtech.uucp> cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
> Peter made no mention of changing the fdisk table (hence why I said if it
> can be done).

Yeh, I made no mention of mkfsing and mounting the thing, either. I would
have expected this to be a given.

> Either way, we both agree that it would be messy and shouldn't be done.

Sometimes re-installing everything is more messy. Particularly if a user
has been mucking around as root for a while.
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