From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] creating a plan 9 partition in the MIDDLE of a disk
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 07 Dec 2003 19:52:48 MST."
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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@mit.edu>
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Date: Sun,  7 Dec 2003 22:10:55 -0500
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> I have a disk which has a Plan 9 partition in the middle:
>
> (on Linux ...)
> [root@q plan9]# fdisk /dev/hde
>
> Command (m for help): p
>
> Disk /dev/hde: 2 heads, 32 sectors, 490 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 64 * 512 bytes
>
>    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hde2           130       490     11552   39  Plan 9
>
>
> (now to Plan 9)
>
> disk/prep /dev/sdC0/plan9
> no plan9 partition table found
>   empty               0 23104    (23104 sectors, 11.28 MB)
> >>> a nvram
> start sector: 0
> end [0..23104] 100
> ?overlaps with the pbs and/or the partition table
> >>>

the partition table is sector 1 (the second sector).

russ