[H-GEN] Free Solaris

Robert Brockway robert at timetraveller.org
Thu Feb 13 21:37:09 EST 2003


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On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Christopher Biggs wrote:

> I used to keep a copy of the partition table on my whiteboard and
> restore it by hand after a pt-eating crash.
>
> Anybody else ever hear of Solaris doing that?    (Maybe it was just the
> particular machine I was using?)

I play mainly with Solaris on Sparc and have never had a problem like
that (must have used format to partition dozens if not hundreds of
drives over the years).  I've never had to do partitioning on Solaris/x86.

Cheers,
	Rob

Robert Brockway B.Sc. email: robert at timetraveller.org  ICQ: 104781119
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