SUMMARY Changing disk partitions

From: Philip Sloan <philip.sloan_at_shorts.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 09:59:43 +0000

Hello Managers,

I would like to thank the following people for their reponses :_

Kurt Carlson <SXKAC_at_orca.alaska.edu>
Michael Matthews <matthewm_at_sgate.com>
alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com
Doug Gould <dgj_at_omega.rtpnc.epa.gov>
Dave Thompson <THOMSOND_at_wellington.ecnz.co.nz>

Thanks guys, you really cleared this up for me.

My problem :-

> a: 131072 0 ADVfs # (Cyl. 0 -
> b: 327680 131072 unused 1024 8192 # (Cyl. 164*-
> c: 2050860 0 unused 1024 8192 # (Cyl. 0 -
> g: 1592108 458752 ADVfs # (Cyl. 574*-

> / is mounted on rz2a, rz2b is 160M of swap and /var is mounted on rz2g.

> I would like to leave the root and swap partitions as they are, reduce
> the size of the /var partition to around 200M and use the remainder of
> the disk for a new /home filesystem.


The solution :-

1. Reduce the size of g and leave its offset unchanged.
2. Use partition h for the new filesystem.
3. Make partition h's offset to be g's offset + g's size.
4. Make h's size all that's left.

Here's a copy of the new disklabel :-

8 partitions:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg]
  a: 131072 0 ADVfs # (Cyl. 0 -
164*)
  b: 327680 131072 unused 1024 8192 # (Cyl. 164*-
574*)
  c: 2050860 0 unused 1024 8192 # (Cyl. 0 -
2569)
  d: 327680 131072 unused 1024 8192 # (Cyl. 164*-
574*)
  e: 327680 131072 unused 1024 8192 # (Cyl. 164*-
574*)
  f: 327680 131072 unused 1024 8192 # (Cyl. 164*-
574*)
  g: 409600 458752 ADVfs # (Cyl. 574*-
1088*)
  h: 1182508 868352 ADVfs # (Cyl. 1088*-
2569*)


Regards Phil.
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