Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!whuts!mjs
From: mjs@whuts.ATT.COM (SCHEUTZOW)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: ibmpc: fdisk & partition
Message-ID: <5117@whuts.ATT.COM>
Date: 29 Nov 88 20:48:10 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Whippany NJ
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> I'm having a problem with my harddisk partitions: both ms-dos and minix
> recognize the same partitions.

The solution is to use the minix "fdisk" program, not the ms-dos "fdisk" 
program to set the partitions.  The source code for fdisk is on the 
commands disk in the ibmpc version 1.2 of minix.  I'd like to thank David
Lawyer and Robert Regn for sending me email to point this out.

Mike S.
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