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From: ss60ubu@sdcc3.ucsd.EDU (ANDREW MICONE)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Partitioning hard disk and other horrors
Summary: Help Help!
Message-ID: <4402@sdcc3.ucsd.EDU>
Date: 21 Jul 89 07:12:41 GMT
Reply-To: ss60ubu@sdcc3.ucsd.edu.UUCP (ANDREW MICONE)
Organization: University of California, San Diego
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Help! here's the problem.

I have a Rodime 100meg drive, and A/UX 1.0 on an 80SC.  The latest
version of the Rodime installer allows you to partition for A/UX
automatically. Using dp on the drive reveals five partitions, one
for the Rodime driver, one for HFS, and 3 for UNIX.  The three for
unix consist of the regular apple unix partition, the partition
table partition, and a scratch partition.  The logical size for
these partitions all registers as zero upon observation, here are
the questions:

1) Do I need the latter two partitions, the System Manager's notes
gave me the impression you only needed one partition when using the
drive as additional data space.

2) What do I set the logical size to? I can't do a mkfs on the drive
without setting it, but I don't know what to set it to since I can't
determine how much space the other two unix partitions take up, nor
exactly the size of a block (I read in one place it was 512 bytes,
and off of the mkfs command that it was 1024 bytes).  Where can I
get the block size from? I have the disk partitioned for 50megs HFS
and 50megs A/UX.

Thanks in advance,

andym
andym@crash.CTS.COM
ss60ubu@iugrad1.ucsd.edu