Press
RETURN
to enter the new size and to display the base cylinder
for partition b:
b: base; ( 124)
Change the base for partition b to the cylinder immediately
following the last cylinder in partition a. For example, if you have
added 30 cylinders to partition a, the new base for partition b is 154.
b: base; ( 124) 154
Press
RETURN
to enter the new base and to display the size of
partition b. Enter the new size:
b: base; ( 124) 154 size; ( 360) 300
Press
RETURN
several times, until this prompt appears:
Set ?
Enter q twice to quit both the set function and mdfex. The workstation
displays the mdfex prompt and the message:
Quit
Label on drive 0 needs updating... do it?
Confirm your intention to update the drive label by entering y. The
workstation displays the message:
--confirm quit with ‘y’:
Type y to confirm your intention to quit mdfex and return to the PROM
monitor. The PROM monitor prompt appears.
11. Boot the recover program, create a filesystem on the newly sized root
partition, and copy the backup partition to it:
md0c:recover
mkfs /dev/rmd0a
labelit /dev/md0a root sgi
cd /
mount /dev/md0a /mnt
sh # you must use the Bourne shell for the tar command
tar cfB - [!m][!n][!t]* .??* | ( cd /mnt ; tar xvfpB - )
exit
The copy takes about eight minutes.
6-16 IRIS OWNER’S GUIDE
SERIES 3000 Version 1.1
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