Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!paperboy!meissner From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: Redoing Second RZ55 on 3100 Message-ID: Date: 16 Mar 90 21:04:14 GMT References: <2054@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM> <10114@cbmvax.commodore.com> <23119@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Sender: news@OSF.ORG Organization: Open Software Foundation Lines: 27 In-reply-to: mao@eden's message of 16 Mar 90 17:58:19 GMT In article <23119@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> mao@eden (Mike Olson) writes: | 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. One thing I did once when mananging a UNIX system was to put /tmp on the secondary filesystem where swap went on the first disk and just do mkfs before mounting it. That way you don't waste disk space (if disk space is tight), but you can still boot off of a secondary disk if problems come up. -- Michael Meissner email: meissner@osf.org phone: 617-621-8861 Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA Catproof is an oxymoron, Childproof is nearly so