From: "James A. Robinson" <jimr@highwire.org>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] q re /sys/src/cmd/disk/prep/prep.c:240
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2016 23:51:59 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPd04b6N+Ly490wU6TfPqz35nUOaw7c=Juu-2X0k2QLA_orQzA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18be423d05a39f1716c71536e5fb0c38@quintile.net>
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On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 1:43 PM Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:
> The usual process is to use prep first to create a windows etc
> compatible partition table with one big partition called plan9.
> then subdivide that.
>
> see the recipie near the end of the format(1) manpage.
>
> why part does different things in automatic mode I don't know.
Hi,
Yes, when I used disk/fdisk I set a single p1 partition with
the label plan9. Then I was running disk/prep against that
/dev/sdE1/plan9 partition.
I couldn't think of any reason I needed a 9fat partition on
a disk I didn't plan to use as a boot disk.
Jim
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2016-11-04 20:03 James A. Robinson
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