changing partition sizes after Install

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From: Timothy Fossum
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1991 14:17

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In "Known Problems with SunOS Release 4.1.1", it states that add_services
can fail if partition changes are made after then install.  It goes on to
say that the disk_info.* configuration files are text files and that
"the name/values pairs are fairly self-explanatory".  One of the fields
is the 'size' field, which doesn't seem to be self-explanatory at all.
In particular, for an Emulex Controller and 327M drive, the 'size' field
seems to be about equal to the (integer part of the) number of blocks
divided by 1954 [I determined this experimentally], except this doesn't
work for the first partition.  What exactly is the 'size' field, and how
is it related to the other fields in the partition configuration?
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