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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!sdd.hp.com!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.cso.uiuc.edu!dcl-nxt33!cs101f87 From: cs101f87@dcl-nxt33 (cs101 student) Subject: DISKTAB question Message-ID: <Bw77MD.K3@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Summary: Need info on partitions in DISKTAB file Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 05:08:36 GMT Keywords: disktab partitions Lines: 35 This may be a rather stupid question, but you can pipe all your flames to /dev/null anyway... I have recently been looking at doing "real" partitioning on my hard drive (386BSD 0.1 already installed and running...). I have looked at the DISKTAB entry and am still confused on how I would create my own. The cause of this confusion is the partition names... This is what I have figured out: Partition Purpose a Root filesystem b Swap partition c Whole space allocated to 386BSD My question concerns the "d" and "h" partitions... In some disktab entries, the d partition is the same as the "c" partition, namely all of 386BSD's space... On others, however, it is its own partition with 4.2BSD filesystem installed... Why is this so, and how do I know which one I want?? If I wanted to leave the original 386BSD single root filesystem (as installed by the TinyBSD INSTALL program), and increase my swap space, would I be saved any trouble of dealing with "d" and "h" partitions?? ^^^ By the way, I realize that I will have to NEWFS the drive anyway, since I will be taking the extra swap space out of the original root filesystem... Thanks ahead, Rafal Rafal Boni r-boni@uiuc.edu rkb55989@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu cs101f87@sumter.cso.uiuc.edu