mounting drives

[Thomas L. Zimmerman]

> 
> If anyone can shed some light (or better yet, offer some solutions)
> to either of these problems, I'd love to hear about it.
> 
OK, first, yes A/UX 2.0 can deal with non-Apple drives and yes, it does
only mount one HFS partition - no matter how many there are on the drive.
I have a 650M HP as my external drive with A/UX running off my internal
HD80.  I originally had several mac partitions on the external driv -
which had been formatted and partitioned using Silverlining.  Making all
the HFS partitions mount on startup resulted in their being there under the
minimal mac os when it started but then all but one went away when A/UX
was launched.  I even tried installing the SilverLining mount controller
DA, got it running under A/UX and then mounted the other partitions - what
I ended up with was several copies of the same disk partition! Conversation
with Apple reps verified that A/UX will only mount the single HFS partition
per physical drive.  If you use Silverlining it is fairly trivial to 
alternately copy files to the one partition you want, shrink the other 
partitions, expand the one your keeping in a repeat loop until all your files
are on the one partition and then delete the others.  I have been running
for over a week now with a 320M HFS partition and have have no problems.

Now, I've got a question.  Alert readers will note that I have used only
half of my 650M disk.  The other half was set up, using Silverlining as
a "UNIX_SVR2;Random" partition.  Anyone out there have any clue what
slice of the disk this is so I can make a file system and mount it?

A final comment. I also have the 1.2G of disk on my Sun workstation 
mounted using NFS to the Mac.  It has not really hit me just how 
impressive the A/UX Finder interface is for doing "real" UNIX stuff until
yesterday.  I was going through the several megabytes of net notes and 
source code I have collected in the last few months.  But, rather than
doing a lot of typing of descriptive (but long) filenames, I was double
clicking on unix text file icons, transparently bringing up Textedit to 
view and edit them.  I was dragging files from folder to folder to place
them where they made sense - sometimes on the mac file system and sometimes
on the UNIX one (no more rcp and ftp).  I was dropping UNIX files in the
trash and they went away.  I even had a running count of the the amount
of used/free disk space at the top of my Finder window - so I could see
what a good job I was doing of freeing up space - without regularly
resorting to 'df'.  Reading this it may not sound like much, but to
someone who could both appreciate it from the transparent ease of use and
who had some idea of all the technical magic going on in the background to
make it that easy it was impressive.  Well done Apple!


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Lee Zimmerman, Naval Ocean Systems Center, Code 421, San Diego, CA, 92152
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