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From: paul@mecazh.UUCP (Paul Breslaw)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re^2: HP 7958S disk question
Message-ID: <355@node17.mecazh.UUCP>
Date: 21 Aug 89 18:07:52 GMT
References: <239@bnrunix.UUCP> <5570268@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
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> 7.0 is planned to bring the 300 and 800 much closer together, but the
> match is not absolute.  Sorry Roger, but you've struck on one of the few
> exceptions:  Disk partitions on the 300 are not planned.  (If it's any
> consolation, though, we're not taking them out of the 800.)

Unix has sensibly partitioned disks since the PDP-11 days. It allows
existing physical disks to be logically split up according to the
needs of ones users.  Big disks are more economical than small ones, 
but small file systems are more manageable than large ones - particularly 
in view of the current brain-damaged HP 1/4" cartridge philosophy. 

If my users requirements change, HP presumably would like me to buy 
new disks. 

This really is one of the worst decisions I have heard in a long time.
Please reconsider it.


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