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[Chuq Von Rospach]

>The A/UX 80 Meg disk comes full of A/UX.  I want to wipe out some of
>the less-useful parts of A/UX and repartition the disk so as to have
>at least 30 Meg (preferably 40) of MacOS partition.

>1. How do I back up A/UX to floppies?

I back up to floppy with cpio. To back up a directory structure, use:
	% find . -print | cpio -ovBF > /dev/rfloppy0

To recover the files again later, use:
	% cpio -ivdmu < /dev/rfloppy0

To see what's on the floppies, use:
	% cpio -it < /dev/rfloppy0

All of this is covered in the A/UX 1.1 Local System Administrator's manual,
page 4-17 to 4-19, except for the F flag. It will cause the sytem to format
the floppies before use, so you don't need to pre-format them (handy).

>2. What are some obvious candidates for deletion?  I will be the only
>user on the system.

The first things I normally kill are /usr/games and /usr/catman, unless you
don't have manuals handy or happen to rely on on-line man pages.

Other things to consider, with caveats (the list of caveats are not
necessarily complete, so don't take this as gospel. These are the things I
consider candidates, but they may not be appropriate for your work):

o /usr/dict if you don't use 'spell'
o /usr/spool/ftp if you don't allow incoming ftp.
o the stuff in /usr/lib/terminfo you don't need. 
o /usr/lib/dwb if you don't use Documenter's Workbench.
o /usr/lib/mac -- look through here for stuff you don't need.
o /usr/lib/libp -- profiled libraries.
o /etc/bind -- if you aren't using it.

>3. Once I have removed the desired amount of A/UX, can I repartition
>the disk without having to initialize it and restore from backups?

No. You can't change the size of a partition without rebuilding it from
scratch.

>4. How do I perform the partition?  Should I use Apple's HD SC Setup
>or the A/UX dp (if that's what it's called) command?

Use HD SC Setup. It's *much* cleaner and easier to use.


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