Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!mit-eddie!killer!wpg!tulane!rampart!barad From: barad@rampart.tulane.edu (Herb Barad) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux Subject: Disk partitions: autorecovery, aux-root, swap, etc. Keywords: dp(1), disk partitions, A/UX Message-ID: <8@rampart.tulane.edu> Date: 11 Jul 88 18:16:28 GMT Reply-To: barad@tulane.UUCP Organization: E.E. Dept., Tulane University, New Orleans, LA Lines: 24 I have a Dataframe 150XP and I've set it up for A/UX. I did this using dp and created only 1 partition: the A/UX root partition. I did not create any autorecovery, eschatology, Mac_HFS, or swap partitions. I've heard from SuperMac that their current driver does not support Mac_HFS partitions (please inform me if I'm wrong). This doesn't bother me that much, but I don't have other partitions like swap and the eschatology partitions. How do I create these? I can make a tar tape and save what I've got. Do I have to reformat the disk? How big do each of the partitions have to be? If I don't have a swap partition, does this imply that I'm not taking advantage of virtual memory? Has anyone formatted their own A/UX disk (especially a Dataframe)? How did you make the different partitions. I finally have the manuals now, but the description of dp(1) is not too clear regarding partitioning strategy. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. -- Herb Barad Electrical Engineering Dept., Tulane Univ. INTERNET: barad@tulane.edu USENET: barad@tulane.uucp