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- From: rlyle@nl.oracle.com (Rob Lyle Wizard of Ozje)
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- Subject: Re: Disk partitioning/layout (Was: New 877 Installation)
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- Date: 30 Dec 92 16:58:28 GMT
- References: <JTHOMAS.92Dec24140611@navajo.nmsu.edu> <JTHOMAS.92Dec28161410@navajo.nmsu.edu> <1992Dec29.144859.3998@colby.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec29.144859.3998@colby.edu>, dwcooley@colby.edu (David W. Cooley) writes:
- |> In article <JTHOMAS.92Dec28161410@navajo.nmsu.edu> James Thomas writes:
- |>
- |> >I would like to be able to define the partition sizes. For example, a
- |> >stock 48M swap partition may have been OK in the "old" days, but systems
- |> >have more memory now. The 877 we got was ordered with 128M of memory (gee,
- |> >somewhere between 3200 and 6400 times the memory in the 1620 I started on
- |> >... :-) . It was set up with a 1106M primary swap space - not enough for a
- |> >full dump, for example. Suppose I want 145M of primary swap? The choices
- |> >are 106M, 128M, and 980M. Not very appropriate. What do I do when HP
- |> >tells me they can't support the system because I can't give them a complete
- |> >system dump ?? :-) :-)
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- Wait for HP-UX 9.0 maybe? I think its pretty damn disgraceful not to be able
- to partition your own disks on a modern day UNIX system. I had to resort to
- filesystem swap on another disk to cope with the 128Mb on our 827s.
-
- Once again, "damned disgraceful". Come on HP, you could've done better than that!
-
- Heh heh - ever tried to work out if the partitions you *HAVE* selected actually
- cover the whole disk? Get busy with that calculator, and those oh so pretty
- ascii drawings of overlapping partitions and tabular size tables.
-
- Sum up: "guff".
-
- --Rob "Have been happier" Lyle.
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