demasi@paisana.UUCP (04/03/87)
Hello Folks,
I've seen some questions along this line in this group, so I thought
I'd give it a shot. I'm S/A on a 3b2/400 running Sys V.2.0.4, and for
some reason am having troubles partitioning the disks (2*72M) to the
recommended 23Meg limit for file systems. I'm trying to accomplish
this by using the makefsys command on the disk partitions in single
user mode with the file systems unmounted. (The alternate method,
doing a full restore from the core packs is impractical since the
machine is already in production, and I didn't know about the size
restrictions when I started this project)
Things go well when I recreate /usr2 at the smaller size, but makefsys
returns a read error when I try to create the other file systems on
the same disk. Since I can create a file system in the same place as
where one already existed, I imagine that I am simply leaving out a step
to prepare the disk partition for a makefsys (or something close to
that.) Everybody I have spoken to so far says that it must be possible
to repartition without doing a full restore, but nobody quite seems to
know what the missing step is. Also, since I remade /usr2 to the
suggested size, backups have been going awry in that a backup of the
root system does not stop at the root system but continues up the file
tree (ie into /usr and so forth.)
Any ideas folks?
(I really don't want to do a full restore at this point)
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Michael C. De Masi - AT&T Communications (For whom I work and not speak)
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"No matter where you go, there you are" - Buckaroo Banzaicwd@cuae2.UUCP (04/04/87)
Read the "Hard Disk Partitioning" Section in the System Administrator's Guide (in Administrative Tasks major section) and look at the manual page for /etc/fmthard (in the SA Reference Manual). Also, take a look at the "sysadm partitioning" command. You'll get the idea. Chris Donahue AT&T Info. Sys. Customer Systems Engineering