Re: Fw: Help on Raw Partitioning???

[Prabhu Ramachandran <prabhu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

hi,

On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Ram Kumar wrote:

> Hi,
>  i use RedHat 6.1 distro.
>  what does raw partition mean? i assume that this partition will not have
> any
>  filesystem associated with it.
>  How do i create raw partition on my IDE disk on linux? i need this for
>  trying out coda filesystem.

	I guess it means unformatted free space on a disk.  So either you
have a a disk that is not completely partitioned or you resize your
partitions to create it,  or you could have an unused partition that you
delete and use as a raw parition. 

prabhu


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