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From: kevin@msa3b.UUCP (Kevin P. Kleinfelter)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: minidisks command won't delete
Message-ID: <1424@msa3b.UUCP>
Date: 25 Oct 90 11:18:24 GMT
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shawn@jdyx.UUCP (Shawn Hayes) writes:


>  I'm not so sure that using the maintenance diskettes will let you delete
>/u.  I had been using /u for testing raw disk interfaces and wanted to
>clean it up.  Since I wasn't sure of how to do it I thought I'd delete it
>and recreate it.  I could not delete it when running the minidisk command
>and I could not delete when I booted off my maintenance diskette.  

Ditto.  

A boot in single-user mode from the hard disk tells me that I am not
"allowed" to delete that disk.  The only improvement with the maintenance
diskette is that it also tells me that I am not allowed "because it is a
system minidisk."  I believe that AIX 1.2 incorrectly identifies /u
as a "system" disk. If others concurr, I'll report it as a bug.  As for
now, I guess its time for ANOTHER re-install.  :-(

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