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From: ems@apple.UUCP (Mike Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Why doesn't Ultrix allow "a" partitions to shrink?
Message-ID: <912@apple.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 3-Jun-87 04:59:32 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun  3 04:59:32 1987
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Organization: Apple Computer, Inc., Cupertino, USA
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Keywords: Ultrix disk parition a only grows
Summary: Why not swap on the 'a' partition?
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In article <13263@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA>, mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Michael Khaw) writes:
> What I'm really trying to get at is I want a "b" swap partition near the "front"
> of the disk, and a fairly large "h" partition "behind" it, but I don't want to
> waste the 7 odd Mb "a" partition, so can I make "b" overlap with "a" if I tell
> newfs that "a" is only the part that doesn't overlap "b"?

Why don't you just do your swaping on the 'a' partition?  Have it 
overlap the b and maybe even the g partition, then have your h.  (or combine
the g with the h...).  Making the small a should also work, but is kind
of kludgy...

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