Re-partitiioning of HD in 3B2

[jack.y.gross]

In article <562 at genco.bungi.com> rag at genco.bungi.com (Art Gentry (SysOp)) writes:
>In article <3101 at esquire.dpw.com> ibarra at DPW.COM (Michael Ibarra) writes:
>>
>>	I have changed my hard drive from a 32 Meg CDC Wren to an 80 Meg CDC
>>Wren II. I had a bad core set at the time so I just did a disk to disk copy
>>from my 32 Meg to my new boot disk the CDC Wren II. I haave had no problems
>>with this set-up, except that the partitions are still for a 32 Meg drive,
>>not giving me the full storage available to me. I have the old CDC 32 Meg 
>>set up as /usr2 and I am going to keep it this way (unless I can hear of a 
>>better way?). I have the first drive partitioned for / & /usr, I wish to in-
>>crease the partitions to reflect that of a CDC Wren II for / & /usr. I would
>>rather not have to reload the operating system with a full core restore, as I 
>>already have alot of info on these and it would be very tedious backing up, thenreloading selective filesystems.
>
>To repartition a 3b drive, you have no choice but to do a full restore, but
>it's not as terrible as it may sound.  First make a full backup of your
>current drive (I recommend making 2 complete backup sets), then do your
>full restore, but all you need to "install" is the essential utilities.
>After re-partitioning your disk, then restore your backups to the
>appropriate file systems.  Make sure you set the flag to overwrite an
>existing file or you'll find you still have the default installed
>config files instead of your already config'd files (lp, uucp, /unix, etc.)
>As to the file system layouts, I would recommend that you put / and /usr
>on separate physical discs if possible.  You'll find your response time
>may be drasticly improved.
>
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NOT TRUE NOT TRUE. It is possible to repartition with fmthard. I already
explained how to the poster.



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