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09-17-2004

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I downloaded and installed SUSE Pro 9.1 last night, smallish (28MB) installer than goes and gets around 1.2Gb of data from an FTP site.

What a pleasure it is. The install was very easy, kept me informed what was happening all the way through.

Everything about SUSE appear to be incredibly logical so you don't feel uncomfortable with anything.

I've configure Samba and it's fully visible on my network, I just need to work out how to set up local network "public" access to drirectories on the data drives.

Adding extra HDDs is also very simple. just add the disk and YaST finds it and gives you a very easy interface to tell it what you want it to do.

I'm currently going to take some advice I've read here and elsewhere and format them as unix partitions rather than using NTFS.

This has so far been a very positive experience Smilie

Mark.

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addpart

ADDPART(8)                                                     System Administration                                                    ADDPART(8)

NAME

       addpart - tell the kernel about the existence of a partition

SYNOPSIS

       addpart device partition start length

DESCRIPTION

       addpart  tells the Linux kernel about the existence of the specified partition.  The command is a simple wrapper around the "add partition"
       ioctl.

       This command doesn't manipulate partitions on a block device.

PARAMETERS

       device The disk device.

       partition
              The partition number.

       start  The beginning of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).

       length The length of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).

SEE ALSO

       delpart(8), fdisk(8), parted(8), partprobe(8), partx(8)

AVAILABILITY

       The addpart command is part of the util-linux package and is available from https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.

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