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From: chuq@Apple.COM (Spot the Wonder Dog)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: A/UX disk partitioning schemes???
Message-ID: <44138@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 21 Aug 90 20:18:55 GMT
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brownrigg@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:

>Further, the installation doc.s
>ackowledge existance ONLY of apple 80 and 160M drives, and apparently,
>so does "Apple HD SC".  

yeah. It can be done with dp. If you're smart, you'll go out and pick up a
copy of SilverLining by LaCie and use it to format the disk. It does A/UX
compatible partitions for 2.0. As far as I know, it's the only non-apple
formatter that is 2.0 compatible right now.

>What is the "proper" way to partition this disk given that 1) I need to be,
>at times, working strickly within the mac. environment.  2)  I would like
>to maintain fluid interchange of mac and A/UX files, and 3)  I've always
>wanted my very own Unix workstation.

Depends on how much space you need where. A/UX will mount MacOS partitions,
so you can use them from the MacOS environment of A/UX. The MacOS
environment can read Unix filesystems (but not vice versa), but when you're
booted up in MacOS for real the Unix side won't be available. Where you put
the disk space depends on which systems you're going to be using for what.

>More specifically, do I understand correctly that the standard A/UX 
>installation sets up a bare bone Mac file system whose sole purpose is
>to get the machine up and running under A/UX.

That's one of many options. It's not necessary.

>This implies I need to 
>reload all my "mac apps" into a unix file system.  If I need to be
>mac-only, does this mean I need to allow for a MUCH bigger mac-partition?

What I'd do with 200 Meg or so is this:

o Swap: 15-20 Meg [required]
o Eschatology: 3-4 Meg [not required, but a good idea]
o Unix: 60-100 meg
o MacOS: the rest. 

How much Unix you use depends on how much Unix hacking you'll be doing. If
you're loading in X windows or doing unix programming then you want more
Unix space. I keep all my MacOS stuff on my MacOS partition so it's still
avaialble when I'm not booted in A/UX.

>I'm confused as hell...

Hope this clears some of it up.

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