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From: mao@eden (Mike Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Redoing Second RZ55 on 3100
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Date: 16 Mar 90 17:58:19 GMT
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In article <10114@cbmvax.commodore.com>, grr@cbmvax.commodore.com
(George Robbins) writes:
> In article <2054@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM> jls2@ursa-major.spdcc.COM
(Jeff Stoner) writes:
>> I have two RZ55's on a DECstation 3100. While mucking around with
>> the system commands, I noticed that my two drives have the same
>> configuration ...
>> newfs -v -n /dev/rrz3b rz55
> You should give some thought to whether or not you want to have a secondary
> swap area.

you may also want to reserve this as swap space, so that you can boot off
the second drive if the first dies.  this would be uncomfortable if there
were a file system on the b partition.

					mike olson
					postgres research group
					uc berkeley
					mao@postgres.Berkeley.EDU