On my NeXTstation Turbo Color, I am running OS 4.2. So far, most things have been smooth sailing, however, there is one little nagging issue. In the system installer and in the Info panel, the hard drive (4.5 GB Seagate) is recognized as ~129 MB in size. In the Workspace Manager, it is recognized as ~1.5 GB (judging by the space left text and the size of OS 4.2). How do I partition the hard drive to make it so that one partition is ~3.99 GB and one is ~.51 GB? Or will it just fill it up to 4 GB and the estimated size is wrong and should be ignored?
Eric
P.S. I have no access to any other computers with SCSI.
People have said - that with OpenStep you can have a FULL 4GB partition, but I have personally never tried it.
It would seem, that to have a FULL 4GB partition - it must be set up BEFORE you install the operating system. Since you already have an existing operating system [and data] on 1/2 of your hard drive - obviously, the easiest thing to do would be to do something to allow you to use all of the 'unseen' space on your 4GB drive.
The following is the method that I was able to successfully partition many Seagate ST15150N [4.3GB] into two equal partitions using either NeXTSTEP or OpenStep.
By doing this ... you will NOT LOSE any of your operating system and data on the existing 2GB partition. This will ONLY [hopefully] allow you to use the other 1/2 of your hard drive that is currently not being 'seen'.
I have posted this info before - but who knows if the thread is still around.
Thanks again to the author [you know who you are!]
I hope this helps! If not someone else will come along eventually with a better solution.
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To create additional space on a 4.3GB hard drive [NeXT] -
( Notes: 0 is a zero in all cases - text after # is a comment, don't type it) .
1. Boot
2. Login in as root
3. Open a terminal window.
4. Type the following in the terminal window:
cd / # make sure you are in root
mkdir disk2 # create the mount point
cd /etc # get into the etc directory
cp fstab fstab.old # make a backup of fstab
chmod 644 fstab # change permissions on fstab to make it writeable
5. edit the fstab file
To edit the fstab file do the following:
1. In File Viewer click on the etc folder
2. In the etc directory structure double click on fstab file [the first one - with no extension]
3. This should bring up the NeXT edit program and the fstab file will be displayed in the edit window as follows:
#
# DO NOT DELETE THIS FILE, IT IS REQUIRED FOR BOOTING
#
# This file contains information used to mount local hard disks.
# Consult your Network and System Administration manual
# for information on adding local disks. Information on the format
# of entries in this file can also be found in the fstab man page.
#
/dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1
Add the following line after the last line above:
/dev/sd0b /disk2 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2
Save the file [save - not "save as"] and quit the NeXT edit program.
6. Type the following in the terminal window:
chmod 444 /etc/fstab # change permissions back to read only
7. Reboot the system in verbose mode. Watch to see if the /dev/sd0b partition is mounted on /disk2 and note errors [if any].
8. Login as root.
9. Double Click on the disk2 folder in the file manager and it should tell you that you have +/- 2GB of space available.
10. Optionally open a terminal window and type: df to get information on the mounted drives.
11. Additionally you may want to run a fsck on the new partition to verify its integrity. Type: fsck /dev/sd0b in a terminal window.
- You must enable the Unix Expert mode to see the etc folder.
Do the following:
1. In File Viewer click NextApps
2. In the NeXTApps directory tree double click Preferences.app
3. In the Preferences window scroll the bar right until you see the Unix tab
4. In the Unix selection check Unix Expert and Large File system
5. Close/Hide the Prefernces app and you should now see the etc directory in your root file system directory.
NOTE: *** [To name the new "disk" to as you wish - change the name of "disk2' to whatever you want.
IF you have already created a name [in this case - disk2, and you wish to change it - do the following:
1. Edit the fstab file first. Change /disk2 to /whatever
2. Type: mkdir /whatever in a terminal window
3. reboot
The partition will now be mounted on the /whatever folder and you
can delete the now empty /disk2 folder.]***
Quote from: "ericj"In the Workspace Manager, it is recognized as ~1.5 GB (judging by the space left text and the size of OS 4.2).
You can try to mount /dev/sd0b and 0c, mostly the install process creates further partitions that wasn't auto mounted. (and look via "df")
If you have that partitions i found:
/
/LocalApps
/LocalLibrary
a good partition sheme. (Alter your fstab for automount)
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How do I partition the hard drive to make it so that one partition is ~3.99 GB and one is ~.51 GB? Or will it just fill it up to 4 GB and the estimated size is wrong and should be ignored?
You can boot fram another harddrive, alter the disktab for your needs, do a "disk -i" for this harddrive, mount that and copy the content of your bootdrive to this news drive. This way was often descipted, searchwords for google.groups are dump + restore + disktab