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Re: A question about disks



On Wed, 29 Nov 1995, Ira Abramov wrote:
> 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?
> and you want to make it Linux bootable?
> I'd use Fdisk to make it a Linux partition, mkfs to format it (ext2, I 
> suppose) and then reinstall LILO before booting again. another option 
> (not too good) is to mount the DOS partition and use it for Unix as-is...

Ira, he wants to get rid of his /dev/hda disk altogeather... not turn it 
into a linux disk.

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