On Mon, 16 Dec 2002 14:35, you wrote: > Wait a moment... I think it would be wise to have 'fdisk' on s390 as well, > and not as a symlink to fdasd. Since 'fdasd' can only talk to devices > controlled by the dasd driver, would you not need the pure fdisk to > parition any other block device? I believe it just builds out of the box.
You _can_ run fdisk against a file, I've just done it. I did have to set the device geometry. I don't know how to access the partition I created though - perhaps using one of those odd network block drivers, or accessing it via user-mode-linux. The point though is that you can use it to partition a file. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb
