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- From: pjw@hpindda.cup.hp.com (Pam Williams)
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 19:05:47 GMT
- Subject: Re: Disk partitioning/layout (Was: New 877 Installation)
- Message-ID: <4310334@hpindda.cup.hp.com>
- Organization: HP Information Networks, Cupertino, CA
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- Yes, HP-UX 9.0 should solve this problem.
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- Logical Volume Manager (LVM) is an option at install time. With LVM,
- root, swap, dump, and any other filesystem can be made any size as
- long as it is on a MByte boundary. (Okay, I believe there are limitations
- on the low end of swap and root, ie, I think root must be at least
- 50MB and swap must be at least 16...)
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- As a matter of fact, with LVM, we recommend that you make / (root) as small
- as comfortable (the default is 104 MB I believe). This is because /usr,
- /tmp, etc (all filesystems except root) can be extended.
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- LVM is the direction we're taking to solve the partition problem...
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- Note, however, the LVM is currently only available on HP-UX 9.0 and is
- only available on the S800. In the future, you'll see LVM on the S700
- also.
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- Hope this provides the functionality you are looking for. I too have been
- bitten by the limits of hard partitioning.
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- Regard,
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- Pam
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- Pam Williams Open Systems Software Division, Cupertino Open Systems Lab
- pjw@cup.hp.com Hewlett-Packard Company
- My words are my own. Talk to you local HP sales person for official HP words.
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