On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Andy Dougherty wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Ari Heitner wrote: > > > Hmm, Linux's fdisk can handle things just fine, if you're willing to kill > > some > > Sun slices to make room for Linux. This seems to be the logical thing to > > do: copy the data from a slice or two to somewhere else, change Solaris's > > mounting rules not to mount the now-unecessary partitions (cursory > > examination > > of this machine seems to indicate this is in /etc/mnttab, and yes 'mnttab' > > is > > a man topic), and then later in the Linux install retag them as ext2 and > > mkfs > > them... > > For Solaris, you want to change /etc/vfstab. /etc/mnttab is a dynamic > file maintained by Solaris to show what's actually mounted. You shouldn't > change it yourself. > thank you :) that's what "cursory examination" gets you. i should have been more suspicious it wasn't called something closer to 'fstab'...
for that matter, had i *read* the manpage (rather than just checking its existance) i might have known this too ... ari
