Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!oliveb!mipos3!omepd!davidl From: davidl@intelob.intel.com (David Levine) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux Subject: Make room! Make room! Message-ID: Date: 18 May 89 15:26:19 GMT Sender: news@omepd.UUCP Distribution: usa Organization: BiiN Information Systems, Hillsboro, Oregon Lines: 31 This is probably a very common question, but I haven't seen an answer on comp.unix.aux in the last month, so here goes... The A/UX 80 Meg disk comes full of A/UX. I want to wipe out some of the less-useful parts of A/UX and repartition the disk so as to have at least 30 Meg (preferably 40) of MacOS partition. 1. How do I back up A/UX to floppies? tar? dd? (What, you think I'm just going to throw that stuff away? I PAID for it! And I'm not going to repartition my disk without a backup.) Statements to the effect that "You don't want to back up A/UX to floppies. Get tape backup unit instead." would be helpful too. 2. What are some obvious candidates for deletion? I will be the only user on the system. 3. Once I have removed the desired amount of A/UX, can I repartition the disk without having to initialize it and restore from backups? 4. How do I perform the partition? Should I use Apple's HD SC Setup or the A/UX dp (if that's what it's called) command? I'm an experienced UNIX user (since 1983) and an experienced Mac user (since 1984), but I've never administered a UNIX system. Please help. David D. Levine BBBBBBBBB IIII IIII NNN NNNN TM Senior Technical Writer BBBB BBBB iiii iiii NNNN NNNN BBBBBBBBB IIII IIII NNNNNNNNN UUCP: ...[!uunet]!tektronix!biin!davidl BBBB BBBB IIII IIII NNNN NNNN MX-Internet: BBBBBBBBB IIII IIII NNNN NNN ARPA: <@iwarp.intel.com:davidl@intelob.intel.com>