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<TITLE>2.3.3 Creating Linux partitions</TITLE>
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<B> Next:</B> <A NAME=tex2html2629 HREF="node74.html">2.3.4 Creating the swap </A>
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<B>Up:</B> <A NAME=tex2html2627 HREF="node70.html">2.3 Installing the Linux </A>
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<B> Previous:</B> <A NAME=tex2html2621 HREF="node72.html">2.3.2 Drives and partitions </A>
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<H2><A NAME=SECTION00433000000000000000>2.3.3 Creating Linux partitions</A></H2>
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<A NAME=secinstalllinuxfdisk> </A>
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<A NAME=1327> </A>
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<A NAME=1328> </A>
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Now you are ready to create Linux partitions with the <tt>fdisk</tt> command.
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As described in Section <A HREF="node68.html#secinstalllinuxreqs">2.2.3</A>, in general you
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will need to create at least one partition for the Linux software itself, and
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another partition for swap space.
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After booting the installation media, run <tt>fdisk</tt> by typing
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<P><TT> fdisk <IMG BORDER=0 ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="img55.gif"> <P></TT>
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where <IMG BORDER=0 ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="img56.gif"> is the Linux device name
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of the drive you plan to add
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partitions to (see Table <A HREF="node72.html#tablepartnames">2.1</A>).
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For instance, if you want to run <tt>fdisk</tt>
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on the first SCSI disk in your system, use the command <tt>fdisk /dev/sda</tt>.
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<tt>/dev/hda</tt> (the first IDE drive) is the default if you don't specify one.
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If you are creating Linux partitions on more than one drive, run <tt>fdisk</tt>
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once for each drive.
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<P><TT> # <em>fdisk /dev/hda</em>
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Command (m for help):
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<P></TT>
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Here <tt>fdisk</tt> is waiting for a command; you can type <tt>m</tt> to get a
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list of options.
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<P><TT> Command (m for help): <em>m</em> <BR>
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Command action <BR>
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a toggle a bootable flag <BR>
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d delete a partition <BR>
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l list known partition types <BR>
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m print this menu <BR>
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n add a new partition <BR>
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p print the partition table <BR>
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q quit without saving changes <BR>
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t change a partition's system id <BR>
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u change display/entry units <BR>
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v verify the partition table <BR>
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w write table to disk and exit <BR>
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x extra functionality (experts only)
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Command (m for help):
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<P></TT>
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The <tt>n</tt> command is used to create a new partition.
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Most of the other options you won't need to worry about. To quit
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<tt>fdisk</tt> without saving any changes, use the <tt>q</tt> command. To quit
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<tt>fdisk</tt> and write the changes to the partition table to disk, use the
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<tt>w</tt> command.
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The first thing you should do is display your current partition table
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and write the information down, for later reference. Use the <tt>p</tt> command.
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<P><TT> Command (m for help): <em>p</em> <BR>
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Disk /dev/hda: 16 heads, 38 sectors, 683 cylinders <BR>
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Units = cylinders of 608 * 512 bytes
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<PRE> Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
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/dev/hda1 * 1 1 203 61693 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
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Command (m for help):
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<P></TT>
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In this example, we have a single MS-DOS partition on <tt>/dev/hda1</tt>, which
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is 61693 blocks (about 60 megs).<A NAME=tex2html264 HREF="footnode.html#1269"><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="gif" SRC="foot_motif.gif"></A> This partition starts at cylinder number
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1, and ends on cylinder 203. We have a total of 683 cylinders in this
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disk; so there are 480 cylinders left to create Linux partitions on.
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To create a new partition, use the <tt>n</tt> command. In this example, we'll
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create two primary partitions (<tt>/dev/hda2</tt> and <tt>/dev/hda3</tt>)
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for Linux.
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<P><TT> Command (m for help): <em>n</em> <BR>
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Command action <BR>
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e extended <BR>
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p primary partition (1-4) <BR>
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<em>p</em>
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<P></TT>
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Here, <tt>fdisk</tt> is asking the type of the partition to create: extended
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or primary. In our example, we're creating only primary partitions, so we
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choose <tt>p</tt>.
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<P><TT> Partition number (1-4):
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<P></TT>
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<tt>fdisk</tt> will then ask for the number of the partition to create;
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since partition 1
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is already used, our first Linux partition will be number 2.
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<P><TT> Partition number (1-4): <em>2</em><BR>
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First cylinder (204-683):
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<P></TT>
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Now enter the starting cylinder number of the partition. Since cylinders
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204 through 683 are unused, we'll use the first available one (numbered 204).
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There's no reason to leave empty space between partitions.
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<P><TT> First cylinder (204-683): <em>204</em> <BR>
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Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (204-683):
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<P></TT>
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<tt>fdisk</tt> is asking for the size of the partition to create. We can
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either specify an ending cylinder number, or a size in bytes, kilobytes,
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or megabytes.
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Since we want our partition to be 80 megs in size, we
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specify <tt>+80M</tt>. When specifying a partition size in this way,
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<tt>fdisk</tt> will round the actual partition size to the nearest number
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of cylinders.
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<P><TT> Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (204-683): <em>+80M</em>
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Warning: Linux cannot currently use 33090 sectors of this partition
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<P></TT>
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If you see a warning message such as this, it can be ignored.
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<tt>fdisk</tt> prints the warning because it's an
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older program, and dates before the time that Linux partitions were allowed to
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be larger than 64 megabytes.
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Now we're ready to create our second Linux partition. For sake of
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demonstration, we'll create it with a size of 10 megabytes.
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<P><TT> Command (m for help): <em>n</em> <BR>
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Command action <BR>
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e extended <BR>
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p primary partition (1-4) <BR>
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<em>p</em> <BR>
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Partition number (1-4): <em>3</em> <BR>
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First cylinder (474-683): <em>474</em> <BR>
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Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (474-683): <em>+10M</em>
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<P></TT>
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At last, we'll display the partition table. Again, write down all of
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this information---especially the block sizes of your new partitions. You'll
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need to know the sizes of the partitions when creating filesystems, later.
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Also, verify that none of your partitions overlap.
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<P><TT> Command (m for help): <em>p</em>
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Disk /dev/hda: 16 heads, 38 sectors, 683 cylinders <BR>
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Units = cylinders of 608 * 512 bytes
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<PRE> Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
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/dev/hda1 * 1 1 203 61693 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
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/dev/hda2 204 204 473 82080 81 Linux/MINIX
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/dev/hda3 474 474 507 10336 81 Linux/MINIX
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</PRE>
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<P></TT>
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As you can see, <tt>/dev/hda2</tt> is now a partition of size 82080 blocks
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(which corresponds to about 80 megabytes), and <tt>/dev/hda3</tt> is
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10336 blocks (about 10 megs).
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<P>
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Note that many distributions (such as Slackware) require you to use
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the <tt>t</tt> command in <tt>fdisk</tt> to change the type of the swap
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partition to ``Linux swap'', which is usually numbered 82. You can
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use the <tt>L</tt> command to print a list of known partition type codes,
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and then use <tt>t</tt> to set the type of the swap partition to that
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which corresponds to ``Linux swap''.
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In this way, the installation software will be able to automatically find
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your swap partitions based on type. If the installation software doesn't
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seem to recognize your swap partition, you might want to re-run
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<tt>fdisk</tt> and use the <tt>t</tt> command on the partition in question.
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<P>
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In the example above, the remaining cylinders on the disk (numbered 508 to
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683) are unused. You may wish to leave unused space on the disk, in case
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you wish to create additional partitions later.
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<P>
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Finally, we use the <tt>w</tt> command to write the changes to disk and
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exit <tt>fdisk</tt>.
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<P><TT> Command (m for help): w
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<P>
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#
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<P></TT>
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<P>
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Keep in mind that none of the changes you make while running <tt>fdisk</tt>
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will take effect until you give the <tt>w</tt> command, so you can toy with
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different configurations and save them when you're done. Also, if you
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want to quit <tt>fdisk</tt> at any time without saving the changes, use the
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<tt>q</tt> command. Remember that you shouldn't modify partitions for
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operating systems other than Linux with the Linux <tt>fdisk</tt> program.
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<P>
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Remember that you may not be able to boot Linux from a partition
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using cylinders numbered over 1023. Therefore, you should try to create
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your Linux root partition within the sub-1024 cylinder range. Again,
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if this is impossible, you can simply boot Linux from floppy.
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<P>
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Some Linux distributions require you to reboot the system after running
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<tt>fdisk</tt>. This is to allow the changes to the partition table to
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take effect before installing the software. Newer versions of <tt>fdisk</tt>
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automatically update the partition information in the kernel, so rebooting
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isn't necessary. To be on the safe side, after running <tt>fdisk</tt> you
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should reboot the installation media, as before, before proceeding.
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<P><ADDRESS>
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<I>Matt Welsh <BR>
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mdw@sunsite.unc.edu</I>
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