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From: brown@kpno.UUCP
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Subject: Disk partition sizes on big disks.
Message-ID: <265@kpno.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 18-Nov-83 01:41:38 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 18 01:41:38 1983
Date-Received: Sun, 13-Nov-83 17:50:21 EST
Organization: Kitt Peak Natl. Obs.  Tucson, AZ
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We're running 750s with RA81s and TS11s.  Doing a level 0 dump on the 160Mb
user partition has become a royal pain now that the user space is 90 % full.
The full dump takes 4 tapes and is slow!  Even switching to 125 ips 
tape drives will still take 4 tapes but at least go faster.  A thought is to
divide the partitions which are backed up into ~40 Mb partitions so each will
fit on a single 2400' 1600 bpi tape.  Are there any reasons not to do this?
I'd appreciate any experiences/war stories etc.  and will summarize after a
week or so.

	regards,
	Mike Brown	Kitt Peak National Observatory
			Tucson, Arizona			(602) 325-9249	

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