Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sm.unisys.com!randvax!edhall From: edhall@randvax.UUCP (Ed Hall) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: ibmpc: fdisk & partition Message-ID: <388@ives.randvax.UUCP> Date: 1 Dec 88 23:14:10 GMT References: <5117@whuts.ATT.COM> Reply-To: edhall@ives.UUCP (Ed Hall) Organization: Rand Corp., Santa Monica Lines: 31 In article <5117@whuts.ATT.COM> mjs@whuts.ATT.COM (SCHEUTZOW) writes: >> 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. >att!whuts!mjs Be CAREFUL! I managed to render my DOS partition unbootable by using Minix fdisk. I was never able to figure out quite why, either. Fortunately I had backed up both my DOS and Minix partitions before I ran fdisk, since nothing short of a high-level format rendered my DOS partition bootable again. Of course, I'm hardly a DOSaphile, so I might have missed something. (Alas, I still have to run DOS for some things.) I wound up using a DOS-based disk manager program (not FDISK) to repartition. I would have saved several hours if I had done that first... Back up *everything*!!! -Ed Hall edhall@rand.org decvax!randvax!edhall sun!sdcrdcf!randvax!edhall