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From: karish@forel.stanford.edu (Chuck Karish)
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Subject: Re: creating minidisks from standalone shell
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Date: 13 Jul 89 03:59:34 GMT
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In article <322@yetti.UUCP> asst-jos@yetti.UUCP
(Research Assistant--Jonathan) wrote:

>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. 

>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.

Minidisks refuses to modify certain `important' filesystems that it
knows about.  If you want to re-locate or enlarge your /usr partition,
minidisks may not be much help.

I wind up doing much of this stuff manually, by editing /etc/system,
/etc/rc (for the `vrmconfig' commands) and /etc/filesystems, making
any special devices needed, and booting from the VRM installation
diskettes to run the VRM Maintenance Facility.  With the VMF, I
can get exactly the layout I want.  I haven't found any other way
to utilize all the space on the disks.  The installation process
chops up free space so that what's left over is hard to consolidate.

	Chuck Karish		{decwrl,hpda}!mindcrf!karish
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