repartit(8) [minix man page]

REPARTITION(8)						      System Manager's Manual						    REPARTITION(8)

NAME

       repartition - load a partition table

SYNOPSIS

       repartition device [partition-file]

DESCRIPTION

       Repartition  uploads  a new partition table for the partitions of device.  The table is obtained from the first sector of partition-file if
       given, device otherwise.  Device may refer to the whole drive or a primary partition, depending on whether you want to upload  a  partition
       or a subpartition table.  The partitions will be truncated to fit within the enclosing device like the disk driver does, unless the numbers
       are coming from partition-file.

EXAMPLES

       repartition /dev/hd0
       repartition /dev/hd4 /etc/hd4.table

       Reload the partition table of drive 0 setting /dev/hd[1-4], and the subpartition table of /dev/hd4 setting /dev/hd4[a-d] using a file.  The
       latter may be useful if you need more than the 4 subpartitions a single Minix partition gives you.

DIAGNOSTICS

       The new table is printed on standard output.

FILES

       /dev/hd[0-9]

SEE ALSO

       hd(4), part(8).

BUGS

       The disk must be in use for the changes to stick.  The partition table of an idle disk will be reloaded on the first open.

AUTHOR

       Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl)

																    REPARTITION(8)

FDISK(8)						      System Manager's Manual							  FDISK(8)

NAME

       fdisk - partition a hard disk [IBM]

SYNOPSIS

       fdisk [-hm] [-sn] [file]

OPTIONS

       -h     Number of disk heads is m

       -s     Number of sectors per track is n

EXAMPLES

       fdisk /dev/hd0	   # Examine disk partitions

       fdisk -h9 /dev/hd0  # Examine disk with 9 heads

DESCRIPTION

       When  fdisk  starts  up,  it reads in the partition table and displays it.  It then presents a menu to allow the user to modify partitions,
       store the partition table on a file, or load it from a file.  Partitions can be marked as MINIX, DOS or other, as well as  active  or  not.
       Using fdisk is self-explanatory.  However, be aware that repartitioning a disk will cause information on it to be lost.	Rebooting the sys-
       tem immediately is mandatory after changing partition sizes and parameters.  MINIX, XENIX, PC-IX, and MS-DOS all have  different  partition
       numbering schemes.  Thus when using multiple systems on the same disk, be careful.

       Note that MINIX, unlike MS-DOS , cannot access the last sector in a partition with an odd number of sectors.  The reason that odd partition
       sizes do not cause a problem with MS-DOS is that MS-DOS allocates disk space in units of 512-byte sectors, whereas MINIX  uses  1K  blocks.
       Fdisk has a variety of other features that can be seen by typing h.

       Fdisk normally knows the geometry of the device by asking the driver.  You can use the -h and -s options to override the numbers found.

SEE ALSO

       part(8).

																	  FDISK(8)