[NCSA-discuss] SCO partition problem

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

I'm helping a customer with SCO 5.0.4.

He is running out of disk space on his 40G disk. On 
inspection of the disk (with linux) I find the following 
partitions, starting at sector 63

/dev/sda3	1G DOS-16bit
/dev/sda4	2G SysV or GNUHurd

ie he is using only 3G of the 40G used.

The DOS partition won't mount with linux (-t msdos or -t 
vfat). I assume it's unformatted.

I presume the SysV partition is the SCO files.

I had expected that the partitions on the disk would start 
at partition 1, allowing me to add more partitions. With the 
last partition as partition 4, it's not obvious how to add 
more partitions. Possibly I could relabel the partitions 
with linux fdisk, but then I assume the boot sequence has to 
know which partitions to boot and mount and I don't know 
how to change that (other than making the appropriate 
partition active).

I used SCO to try to make an extra partition, which it did, 
but it was small (maybe 100kB).

The customer tried reinstalling SCO on another disk and 
tried all variations of the install options (eg "use whole 
disk") but wound up with the same sized partitions.

Checking the SCO docs with google, I can't find any 
limitations on partition size during the install.

I find that /usr has to be on / and not on a separate 
partition as SCO needs files in /usr on boot. I had hoped to 
move /usr to a new partition.

I'll put in a call to SCO today, but I don't expect an 
answer for a couple of days, if at all.

Anyone know how to increase the partition sizes?

Thanks Joe

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