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Article #4642Re: Why doesn't Ultrix allow "a" partitions to shrink?
From: mkhaw
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1987 17:19
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1987 17:19
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In article <912@apple.UUCP> ems@apple.UUCP (Mike Smith) writes:
>Why don't you just do your swaping on the 'a' partition? Have it
Nope, if I use 'a' for swapping then it doesn't have a filesystem on it,
therefore no superblock(s), therefore(?) no partition table. (I already tried).
The Ultrix ra81 givens are:
- you MUST have an 'a' partition WITH a filesystem on it
- the 'a' partition must begin at sector 0 and cannot be made smaller
- the default size of the 'a' partition is (approx.) 7 Mbytes
But others have said that they overlap 'a' with other partitions and build
just a tiny filesystem on 'a'. It IS a kludge, but it seems to be my only
option.
Mike Khaw
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