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- From: nws@stout.atd.ucar.edu (Eddie Roberts (The National Weather Service))
- Subject: HELP: Repartioning Disk
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.134508.12946@ncar.ucar.edu>
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- Organization: Atmospheric Technology Division/NCAR Boulder, CO
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 13:45:08 GMT
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- I would like to repartion an external disk attatched to a SUN IPC (SUN 4.1.2).
- The partitions are set up like this now:
-
- a - ....... 33120 (46/0/0)
- b - ....... 65520 (91/0/0)
- c - ....... 828720 (1151/0/0)
- d - ....... 0 (0/0/0)
- e - ....... 0 (0/0/0)
- f - ....... 0 (0/0/0)
- g - ....... 330480 (459/0/0)
- h - ....... 399600 (555/0/0)
-
- Currently partion g an h are mounted and contain valuable data. Partion a and b
- are not being used. I would like to use the partition option of the format command
- and combine these into one partition. According to SUN's documentation this is
- a relatively *safe* and *simple* process. The final step of this procedure is to
- use the label option of format to update system info. SUN implies you take a chance
- of losing data (even if the filesystems g abd h are unmounted) using label.
-
- QUESTION: If I unmount g and h , repartion the disk, then relabel it , is there
- really a chance of losing data on partitions g and h?
- NOTE: I can't really back up my system yet. I am waiting for a tape unit
- that is on order.
-
-
- Thanks in advance.......
- Eddie
-
- nws@stout.ucar.atd.edu
-