Hi all:
Well, as usual, the most definitive answer to my questions came from Dr.
Filesystem, Alan Rollow:
1. You can do it that way if you want, but you can also
just move the disk, run fsck on it and mount it. Digital
UNIX supports mounting ULTRIX disks directly. At some
point you may want to migrate the data, but you don't
have to.
2. It depends on the version of ULTRIX. Very old versions
may not cope with larger than 2 GB file system. The
V4 group from about V4.2 to V4.3A cope, but df(1) doesn't
behave reasonably. In V4.4 df(1) has been fixed to better
handle the large file system sizes. The file size limit
is still 2 GB, but you can see all the file system.
Most of the folks listed below sent essentially the same info, but
some were under the same misaprehensions I was, ie, that you had to
reformat the drive and that Ultrix NFS could not deal with NFS
partitions over 2Gb. Both are not true...
"Steven L. Jenkins" <sjenkins_at_iastate.edu>
Mike Iglesias <iglesias_at_draco.acs.uci.edu>
Anthony Talltree <aad_at_nwnet.net>
Claudia Burg <cac_at_lambda.la.asu.edu>
Don Weyel <weyel_at_bme.unc.edu>
alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com
Kazuro FURUKAWA <kazuro.furukawa_at_kek.jp>
Huw Davies <H.Davies_at_latrobe.edu.au>
"WHITTAKER, Bruce" <bjw_at_ansto.gov.au>
intrepid!tb_at_uunet.uu.net
torben.leifsen_at_astro.uio.no
"Tim W. Janes" <janes_at_signal.dra.hmg.gb>
Martyn Johnson <Martyn.Johnson_at_cl.cam.ac.uk>
Hellebo Knut <Knut.Hellebo_at_nho.hydro.com>
Andrew Leahy <A.Leahy_at_st.nepean.uws.edu.au>
Lucio Chiappetti <lucio_at_ifctr.mi.cnr.it>
"Richard Eisenman" <eisenman_at_tricity.wsu.edu>
Thanks, folks!
Cheers,
--Lee
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Department of Astronomy lhawkins_at_wellesley.edu
Whitin Observatory
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Received on Tue Nov 19 1996 - 21:44:10 NZDT