Subject: Re: Adding drive space after install?
From: ../randydog (yellowdog@randys.org)
Date: Mon Nov 05 2001 - 09:19:58 MST
you'll have to be root to access pdisk, but I'm pretty sure it's
there. pdisk is dangerous, so be careful. it doesn't take much
to erase everything on your disk. man pdisk for more info
- randy
On Monday, November 5, 2001, at 07:57 AM, Peter Forsyth wrote:
> I don't seem to have pdisk on my system (standard home/office
> YDL install) -
> only fdisk. My impression was that pdisk was just the MacOS
> port of fdisk
> that used to come with LinuxPPC. Was that just a typo, or is
> pdisk there for
> me to find somewhere? (I have problems with fdisk expecting a
> DOS partition
> map or something, so it would be nice to know.)
>
> - pete -
> --------
>
>> From: cbsled@ncia.net
>> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
>> Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 10:13:20 -0500
>> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
>> Subject: Re: Adding drive space after install?
>>
>> On 11/04/01, at 06:31 PM, Marc Stergionis <stermarc@home.com> said:
>>
>>> How would I add partitions -- or do I have to reinstall ...
>>
>> Type:
>> pdisk /dev/{the drive you want to change, e.g.: hda}
>> at a command prompt.
>> Also
>> man fstab
>> to learn how to automount your new partitions at boot.
>>
>> --
>> -----------------------------------------------------------
>> Carl Brown cbsled@ncia.net
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