Subject: Re: Adding drive space after install?
From: Peter Forsyth (pete@linuxfreemail.com)
Date: Mon Nov 05 2001 - 09:38:26 MST
randydog and nathan,
Thanks for the tips, but I checked that before I posted. I looked in /sbin,
/bin, and /usr/bin, and I used the "find" command - I don't recall the
syntax at the moment, but I used a book and tested the syntax with other
files...it was something along the lines of "find -print / | grep "pdisk"",
and it came up with nothing.
I'm aware that it's a powerful/dangerous program. I have a pretty good idea
how to use it. But only if I can find it :)
- pete -
--------
>> 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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