Re: fdisk on sunos
On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Ari Heitner wrote:
> Hmm, Linux's fdisk can handle things just fine, if you're willing to kill some
> Sun slices to make room for Linux. This seems to be the logical thing to
> do: copy the data from a slice or two to somewhere else, change Solaris's
> mounting rules not to mount the now-unecessary partitions (cursory examination
> of this machine seems to indicate this is in /etc/mnttab, and yes 'mnttab' is
> a man topic), and then later in the Linux install retag them as ext2 and mkfs
> them...
For Solaris, you want to change /etc/vfstab. /etc/mnttab is a dynamic
file maintained by Solaris to show what's actually mounted. You shouldn't
change it yourself.
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Andy Dougherty doughera@lafayette.edu
Dept. of Physics
Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042
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