Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!shadooby!yale!cmcl2!lanl!opus!jthomas From: jthomas@nmsu.edu (James Thomas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Partitions legal for root Keywords: partitioning Message-ID: Date: 5 Jan 90 21:28:18 GMT Sender: news@nmsu.edu Organization: NMSU Computer Science Lines: 19 This was hidden in an earlier large posting that may not have made it out. Sorry for trying again. On an 840, what happens if the root partition is put into section 15? How does the boot sequence then work (or does it?). I've RTFM'ed and don't see that defined as a legal possibility. The boot path has four extra ".0"'s - does one of them specify the unix(tm) major/minor device number as is typed later when coming up by hand? Or does the fact that section 15 starts at the right place work because ISL isn't smart enough to know any better? I'd like to make my root partition big enough to hold all of the things that are supposed to be in it (!-). Since I can't actually just adjust the partition sizes (see previous posting :-(, I'd like to make use of the section 15/14 swap in place of 0/1. Before I go zap my disk and get something that won't boot, will this work. (Well actually I won't do it with the REAL root disk, but why waste time... :-) Thank you, Jim Thomas 840 is midas!jthomas@wsmr-emh82.army.mil