> 1. After mounting usb disk with addloop, there is no file /dev/sdU1.0/plan9. > How > can I create plan9 partion table? > > 2. What does diskparts(8), actually do? Does it create partitons on phisical > disk?
diskparts reads existing paritition information from the disk, it does not write anything. amd it's just a short rc(1) script, that typically runs "disk/fdisk -p data>ctl", and "disk/prep -p plan9>ctl". with this setup prep is subpartitioning the plan 9 partition. it's worth a read. > 3. Is the inst/textonly avalible in 9atom or is it obsolete? textonly is not available in the 9atom usb install, but that doesn't mean it's obsolete. > 4. This whole partiton process seems very strange to me. How can I determine > partiton > sizes during partinoning? Which files go where(as I can see there are at > least two partition > types: fossil and 9fat)? both prep and fdisk take the "p" command which will print the current partition info. prep(8) is a good reference. btw, "fossil" and "9fat" are not partition types. prep doesn't use that concept. they are partition names, and by convention they have the obvious use. > 5. Thank you very much erik for your help but could you give me a little > descripton on what > does the commands you've provided me supose to do? > > Sorry, if this questions are to obvious to you but as a newbie I don't > understand plan9 > fully. I can already feel its power but I'm sitll not able to use it. i lost the context here, sorry. - erik
