Re: New disk partitions

From: Danny J. Mitzel <dmitzel_at_everest.hitc.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 15:54:50 -0700

On Tuesday, April 25th 1995 at 15:17 EDT,
in message <9503257988.AA798848240_at_maillink.cmic.com>
mukesh_patel_at_maillink.cmic.com writes:

>> I am new to Dec Alpha(OSF/1 v3) and I am trying to find out how to partition
>
>> disks. Normally I support RS/6000 running aix. I have used SUNOS 4.1.3 which
> had
>> format command but I don't find much help in OSF/1 admin guide.
>>
>> I read admin guide and found scu utility with menu options. What I am lookin
> g
>> for is to display partition information and make different partition on new
>> disks.
>>
>> I will appreciate any help.

I've used disklabel(8)
something like 'disklabel -r /dev/rz0a' prints out all the info on
disk rz0, which includes the partition table. 'disklabel -e -r /dev/rz0a'
starts up an editor on the same info and you edit the partition table and
save, then 'newfs' same as on other systems.

good luck!
danny (dmitzel_at_everest.hitc.com)
Received on Tue Apr 25 1995 - 18:56:21 NZST

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