Disk partition sizes on big disks.

[brown at kpno.UUCP]

We're running 750s with RA81s and TS11s.  Doing a level 0 dump on the 160Mb
user partition has become a royal pain now that the user space is 90 % full.
The full dump takes 4 tapes and is slow!  Even switching to 125 ips 
tape drives will still take 4 tapes but at least go faster.  A thought is to
divide the partitions which are backed up into ~40 Mb partitions so each will
fit on a single 2400' 1600 bpi tape.  Are there any reasons not to do this?
I'd appreciate any experiences/war stories etc.  and will summarize after a
week or so.

	regards,
	Mike Brown	Kitt Peak National Observatory
			Tucson, Arizona			(602) 325-9249	

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