Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!1k1mgm From: 1k1mgm@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Christopher Gunn) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux Subject: Resizing AUX Mac OS partition? (novice question) Message-ID: <1991Jun4.112209.31247@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> Date: 4 Jun 91 11:22:09 CDT Organization: KU Molecular Modeling Lines: 59 My AUX ci (8/80) showed up this week and is causing me a lot of problems, mostly because of disk-space shortage. I've been reading some of the tips in this group and THINK I know how to format and re-build a 3rd-party external drive so that AUX can use it.* My problem right now concerns how to configure the Mac area on the AUX disk, in order to make the pure Mac side of the OS (however pure it may be...) usable.** Advice to RTFM won't help me much, even if it includes pointers to the right FM, because the FM's haven't shown up yet, except the rudimentary ones in the 'Accessory Kit.' (Complete set is on order.) What I've got now: Apple HD SC Setup shows the internal 80Mb drive partitioned as follows: Size What ---- ---- 16K Mac Driver 16K 54567K AUX root slice 0 18432K AUX swap slice 1 3072K AUX auto-recovery >2048K Mac partition 1K Free AUX slice 3 (thanks a lot!) 1K I need to grow the Mac partition by between 2 and 4Mb, in order to install enough fonts, etc., to make the thing usable. Since the Mac partition is 'landlocked,' I'm obviously going to have to find some space in the swap or recovery partitions. I am assuming (perhaps incorrectly) that I can copy the contents of the Mac partition (using the HD SC Setup floppy) to another SCSI disk and restore them later. Then, presumably, I could remove the swap and recovery partitions and subsequently restore all three affected partitions (swap, recovery, Mac) in different (and more appropriate sizes). Question is, at this point, will AUX be able to wake up? Since I can't see the swap and recovery partitions from a Mac OS, I can't backup and restore the contents. (Actually, I can't figure out how to see them from AUX, either, but presumably there's a way...) Sorry for burdening the net with what's obviously a neophyte question; all the FM's are presumably on the way, though, and I really don't intend to be a chronic nuisance. Thanks for any advice folks can provide. Christopher Gunn Molecular Graphics and Modeling Lab SPAN--KUPHSX::GUNN Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Malott Hall 913-864-4428 or -4495 University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045 * It strikes me as uniquely sleazy for Apple to have written software that won't work with 3rd-party drives. ** Along these lines, is there a good reason why the Mac OS on an AUX system can't see Mac hard drives? (It can after all see Mac floppies.) One of the manuals says that AUX can 'mount AUX or Mac file systems.' Is it the case that a mountable 'Mac file system' must be embedded in an AUX-structured disk?