Slicing up big disk section

In article <1iqr8dINNb1q@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> dave.snyder@snide.com writes: > > Quoting Helen C Payne... > } {stuff deleted} > } > } I would like to configure a unix file system of roughly 200Mb > } on the first part of section 5, and a couple informix database > } chunks on the last part. > } > } I have tested this (in part) by using mkfs to make a "short" system > } at the start of section 5. 'df' reported a file system of the > } desired size. > } > I'm not all that familar with HP systems, but if the hard disks are set > up similar to most other systems, I can give a simple suggestion. Why > not make section 5 700Mb in size and create another section of 200Mb > for informix? Doing it that way, you won't have to worry about filesystem > offsets. This is how my harddisk is set up: > That would be great, except that HP/UX 8.02 won't allow any dinking with the disk partition table (I'm told that you can customise disk partitions under HP/UX 9.0, which is about a year away at the rate my company approves OS upgrades) A small disk, say 670Mb, has a section 5 of about 300 Mb but a 1.3 Gb disk has a section 5 of 900Mb. The sections on the "start" of the disk aren't scaled as disk size increase, but section 5 (at the "end") just seems to get bigger! The disk sectioning that comes defined in /etc/disktab is all you get (at least according to everyone I've spoken to, including the SysAdmin Course Teacher.) This is REAL frustrating. I'd like to solve this soon, as I'm leaving this job and am trying to tie up loose ends.