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From: peter@hydrovax.nmt.edu (Peter A. Blemel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re-install of OS has bugs.
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Date: 16 May 89 19:19:53 GMT
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I have a problem that I could use a little help on. We have 2 Rts , one
of which was running 1.1.something. The 2.2.1 install asks if you plan to 
clobber everything and go from scratch (this *is* what I want to do), yet it
still checks the current active partitions on the disks. This is particulary
annoying because it wont let me repartition the minidisks with different
space allocations.

To be specific, I want more tmp , page, and usr space. None of f these 
partitions can be deleted while AIX is running. When I add up all of the
default sizes that install gives they are well under the size of the disk,
yet I cant expand any of them to completely use the disk because the existing
 / /tmp and /usr partitions are added in when install computes the max size
it will allow the partition to be. I Did some fanagleing, but the best I
could do was to use all but 16 meg of the disk. This is not really big enough
for a seperate partition, and I *could* use the space on another (like page)
 partition.

Thanks
Peter