From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:14:56 -0500
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Better Safe Than Sorry (Partitioning Question)
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> Here is an example of what I have:
>
> cylinder = 8225280 bytes
> *p1   0 7295   (7295 cylinders, 55.88 GB) HPFS
> `p2   7295 7296   (1 cylinders, 7.84 MB) PLAN9
>
> I am trying the command
>
> d p2
>
> followed by
>
> a p2 [7265[7296]]
>
> The usual response is: ?syntax error.
>
> Generally speaking, I'd like to have p2 at around 1 GB...ish. Maybe
> more. I figure 31 cylinders will be plenty at this point.

also, one typically adds partitions to the plan 9
partition with prep(8) rather than fdisk.

- erik