Subject: Re: Adding drive space after install?
From: nathan r. hruby (nhruby@arches.uga.edu)
Date: Mon Nov 05 2001 - 09:27:43 MST
On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, ../randydog wrote:
> 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
Also, it's in /sbin, not part of the standard $PATH. You may need to type
/sbin/pdisk unless you are logged in as root or use the --login (or
-l or just plain -) option to su.
-n
>
> - 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.
> >>
> >> --
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> >> Carl Brown cbsled@ncia.net
> >> -----------------------------------------------------------
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-- ...... nathan hruby - nhruby@arches.uga.edu computer support specialist department of drama and theatre http://www.drama.uga.edu/ ......
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