PACKDISK with 1 filesystem

Jonathan Bayer jbayer at ispi.UUCP
Wed Oct 25 22:48:59 AEST 1989


kory at avatar.UUCP (Kory Hamzeh) writes:

>I picked up a copy of PACKDISK with the Xenix/386 modifications. PACKDISK
>needs to have the file system its compressing to be unmounted for
>obvious reasons. I only have 1 filesystem on my drive (root). Can
>I create a boot floppy and run packdisk off of that? If so, do I
>tell packdisk to pack /dev/hd0?


You run packdisk off of the boot floppy, and pack disk  /dev/hd0root.
It will take a bit longer if you are a little short on memory.



JB
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