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Adding hard disks

Partitioning a hard disk using fdisk

Use fdisk(ADM) to create 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:

If you want to create just a single UNIX system partition on the entire disk, select that option, check it using the display option, then quit.
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SCO OpenServer Release 5.0.7 -- 11 February 2003