Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!cbatt!decuac!grebyn!paisana!demasi From: demasi@paisana.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.sys.att Subject: Disk Partitioning on 3b2's Message-ID: <81@paisana.UUCP> Date: Fri, 3-Apr-87 10:14:26 EST Article-I.D.: paisana.81 Posted: Fri Apr 3 10:14:26 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 5-Apr-87 01:58:40 EST Organization: AT&T, Oakton, VA Lines: 33 Keywords: disks makefsys partitioning Xref: utgpu comp.unix.wizards:1651 comp.sys.att:274 Hello Folks, I've seen some questions along this line in this group, so I thought I'd give it a shot. I'm S/A on a 3b2/400 running Sys V.2.0.4, and for some reason am having troubles partitioning the disks (2*72M) to the recommended 23Meg limit for file systems. I'm trying to accomplish this by using the makefsys command on the disk partitions in single user mode with the file systems unmounted. (The alternate method, doing a full restore from the core packs is impractical since the machine is already in production, and I didn't know about the size restrictions when I started this project) Things go well when I recreate /usr2 at the smaller size, but makefsys returns a read error when I try to create the other file systems on the same disk. Since I can create a file system in the same place as where one already existed, I imagine that I am simply leaving out a step to prepare the disk partition for a makefsys (or something close to that.) Everybody I have spoken to so far says that it must be possible to repartition without doing a full restore, but nobody quite seems to know what the missing step is. Also, since I remade /usr2 to the suggested size, backups have been going awry in that a backup of the root system does not stop at the root system but continues up the file tree (ie into /usr and so forth.) Any ideas folks? (I really don't want to do a full restore at this point) -- Michael C. De Masi - AT&T Communications (For whom I work and not speak) 3702 Pender Drive, Fairfax, Virginia 22030 Phone: 703-246-9504 UUCP: seismo!decuac!grebyn!paisana!demasi "No matter where you go, there you are" - Buckaroo Banzai