Subject: Re: linux and dos partition From: s345002@emu.insted.unimelb.edu.au Date: 5 Sep 1993 22:05:29 EST
In article <inu574f.746854341@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au>, inu574f@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Mark Cosham) writes:
> msmith@volta.elee.calpoly.edu (Mark Smith) writes:
>
>>In article <CCKsso.MA2@jabba.ess.harris.com> john@valeron.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Chi-Hwa Marcos) writes:
>>>If I partition a portion of my dos drive for linux and later decide to remove the
>>>partition, would I be able to access the deleted partion in dos? Another words,
>>>can I access the entire drive without having to reformat the drive? Any help is
>>>appreciated.
>
>> Yes, you can, but you'll have to set up a DOS extended partition, thus
>>creating a D: (or what ever the letter is after your last current DOS drive.)
>>Example: If you currently had only a C:, you would have to make the second
>>partition D:.. There's no way to link two partitions together under dos..
>
> Try looking up the DOS command append (I think - it could be join), but
> it definitly can be done.
It's the JOIN command actually, but it's a messy way of doing it.
Basically, you'd have your original DOS C drive partition - then you create
a directory on it, say, "TEST" and use:
JOIN D: C:\TEST
then when you move into the TEST directory, you are actually on drive D:
... and as an extra bonus, if you are running DOS 6 ...
... Microsoft didn't ship SUBST and/or JOIN !!
it's a messy solution .. forget it and just have a second drive. I have 5
partitions on my machine (I run OS/2 and DOS under BOOT MANAGER)
regards, David