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Re: A question about disks



On Tue, 28 Nov 1995, Jacques Goldberg wrote:

> I run a Limux system from hard disk # 2 (/dev/hdb) and I never use the
> /dev/hda DOS disk any more, so I wish to remove it from the computer.
> Can somebody please outline what I ought to do?

Put it as Master IDE disk, and change your /etc/fstab file accordingly.

Since I know you boot with LILO, you also need to use the rdev command on 
your kernel, and also change the /etc/lilo.conf to point to the kernel, 
and re-run /sbin/lilo.

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