Re: Splitting up a UNIX disk

FProse <fprose@rocketmail.com> wrote: > Due to a hardware problem/upgrade a small Compaq server running Unix > 5.0 had a 4gb hard drive replaced with a 9gb hard drive. The default > partion size, where the disk is automatically divided in half by Unix, > changed from 2gb to 4gb. The user we're supporting wishes to make use > of the extra 5gb they bought. The user's sysadmin does not wish to > employ the logical volumn manager. With 2gb UNIX partitions Informix > was happy - two, 2gb chunks. With 4+gb partitions, I can't define two > chunks. The first 2gb chunk is fine. The second one, where I attempt > a 2gb offset, get's me a complaint by onspaces. Suggestions? You will need to partition up the disk into smaller bits however you dont say what version of Unix you have soI cant suggest how you might do that ... try fdisk. /J\\ -- "You've got to remember it was the 1980s. There were a lot of people alive back then who died in the Second World War" - This Morning with Richard Not Judy

Hi! You can have one partition of 4 GB, they use divvy to split it into pieces up to 2 GB each. Build chunks based on devices created by divvy. HTH Michael Jonathan Stowe wrote: > FProse <fprose@rocketmail.com> wrote: > > Due to a hardware problem/upgrade a small Compaq server running Unix > > 5.0 had a 4gb hard drive replaced with a 9gb hard drive. The default > > partion size, where the disk is automatically divided in half by Unix, > > changed from 2gb to 4gb. The user we're supporting wishes to make use > > of the extra 5gb they bought. The user's sysadmin does not wish to > > employ the logical volumn manager. With 2gb UNIX partitions Informix > > was happy - two, 2gb chunks. With 4+gb partitions, I can't define two > > chunks. The first 2gb chunk is fine. The second one, where I attempt > > a 2gb offset, get's me a complaint by onspaces. Suggestions? > > You will need to partition up the disk into smaller bits however you dont > say what version of Unix you have soI cant suggest how you might > do that ... try fdisk. > > /J\\ > -- > "You've got to remember it was the 1980s. There were a lot of people > alive back then who died in the Second World War" - This Morning with > Richard Not Judy