Partitioning a hard disk using fdisk

The fdisk(ADM) utility creates partitions on the hard disk. You can use the whole disk for the SCO OpenServer system, or you can preserve existing partitions that are used by other operating systems, such as DOS. The maximum partition size is 2 terabytes (2TB). The maximum useful size may be further limited by the maximum filesystem (division) size.

With fdisk you can:

• display the current partition table, showing partitions that exist on the disk (if any). There can be a maximum of four partitions. For each partition, the table lists:

  • the partition number

  • whether the partition is active

  • the type (UNIX system or other)

  • the start track of the partition

  • the end track of the partition

  • the size of the partition in tracks

• use the entire disk for a UNIX system. This will destroy any existing partitions. Select this if you want the SCO OpenServer system to occupy the whole disk.

• use the rest of disk for a UNIX system. This preserves any existing partitions. You must make this partition active.

• create a UNIX system partition on the disk with a size you specify. Do not allocate the tracks that the system has reserved for the masterboot and diagnostic programs.

• make a partition active

• delete a partition

• create a partition for a specified operating system