Path: utzoo!yunexus!yetti!asst-jos
From: asst-jos@yetti.UUCP (Jonathan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: creating minidisks from standalone shell
Message-ID: <322@yetti.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jul 89 16:03:03 GMT
Article-I.D.: yetti.322
Reply-To: asst-jos@yetti.UUCP (Research Assistant--Jonathan)
Organization: York U. Computer Science
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I'm new to the AIX world and found the following problem. (I am running
AIX 2.2 (not 2.2.1 yet .. it should be arriving soon) on an RT 6151-115)

I created a minidisk (1000 blocks long) in the standalone shell.  Then i 
rebooted the system, and tried removing the minidisk using the regular
shell.  Unfortunately, the minidisk had no device (ie /dev/hd8 ) 
associated with it, or entry (ie. stanza) in /etc/filesystems. 
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Therefore I was unable to mount it or delete it using the 'minidisk'
command.  I was able to delete it using the maintenance diskette, though, 
because it doesn't use the device name, but a line number to identify
every diskette.  Anyone else ever run across this? Also, I am 
responsible for system security.  Any known holes??

Thanks in advance

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Jeffrey Klein
York University, Toronto     UUCP: Uunet!utai!utcsri!yunexus!yuyetti!asst-jos

Standard Disclaimer: 
This is MY opinion, not York University's!!!