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From: car@trux.UUCP (Chris Rende)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.pyramid
Subject: Can a filesystem be larger than its base partition?
Message-ID: <308@trux.UUCP>
Date: 15 Nov 89 21:15:30 GMT
Organization: Central Cartage, Sterling Hgts., MI
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[ Nixdorf Targon M35/50 TOS 3.2 - Pyramid 9810 OSx 4.0 - MP14 disks]

The System V Release 2 kernel allowed a file system to be built (MKFS'ed)
on a slice/partition which was larger than the slice/partition.
(I.e., file systems began on slice/partition boundaries but could
include other slices/partitions).

(Boy - this is hard to put into words).

On the Pyramid (BSD), Can a file system cross partition boundaries?

Can I MKFS a file system that uses all the disk space from pdisk00a,
pdisk00b, and pdisk00c on /dev/iop/pdisk00a?

Or, is /dev/iop/pdisk00o the only way to combine pdisk00[abc]? (o=a+b+c)

car.
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