Hello folks... I apologize if this is a very basic question, but I'm very
new to the world of DEC Alphastations (1 month I've now been on the job!).
Here it goes:
I'm running a swamp-space hungry program (ESRI's Arc/Info). Our
Alphastation, a model 250, 4-266, came with one 1-gig hard drive. The
/dev/rz0b is set up as the swap1 area, for about 262 megs of swap (I think
that's right). /dev/rz0a is mounted on the / directory, and /dev/rz0g is
mounted on the /usr directory. All together, those take up all the space on
the rz0 drive. Shortly after I started work, I added a second hard drive, a
4.3 gig Seagate SCSI drive sold to us directly by Digital. I mounted this
disk as a single partion, /dev/rz3c on the /big directory. My question is
this: I would like to use some of rz3 as swap space. Can I safely re-mount
the drive so that everything that's now on /big for /dev/rz3c would now
appear on a smaller partition, say /dev/rz3h? That would leave me
/dev/rz3a, /dev/rz3b, and /dev/rz3g to use as swap space, if I understand
DEC's on-line help correctly. I currently have 574 megs worth of data
sitting on /dev/rz3c - shouldn't that fit on /dev/rz3h?
Hope my problem is clear, and that someone can help!
Sincerely,
Colin
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