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Subject: Re: [9fans] disk/^(mbr format fdisk prep)
From: lucio@proxima.alt.za
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Date: Sat,  8 May 2004 12:02:28 +0200
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> The disk utilities do work with regular files (see the last few lines of
> /sys/src/libdisk/disk.c), but you probably need to preallocate one of
> the required size.  Try dd -if /dev/zero ...

I did, that was the bit about less storage than the stated capacity.
Perhaps you can clarify how partitioning would work?  I hope I'm not
the only one that would need to consult the sources to understand the
finer details.

++L