Appendix F: Creating Virtual Disks Manually

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In this appendix, we describe how to create virtual disks manually. In 6.6, "Set up swap space" on page 120, we describe how to use the SWAPGEN EXEC; that exec is included at the end of Appendix B, "Linux commands and scripts" on page 345.

There are two ways to create a virtual disk: in the user's directory entry, or by users themselves.

User's directory entry

The following example is a sample of a user directory entry for virtual disk definition. This directory entry will create 10 virtual disks, each with 50000 blocks reserved for them:

    MDISK 0301 FB-512 V-DISK 50000 MR    MDISK 0302 FB-512 V-DISK 50000 MR    MDISK 0303 FB-512 V-DISK 50000 MR    MDISK 0304 FB-512 V-DISK 50000 MR    MDISK 0305 FB-512 V-DISK 50000 MR    MDISK 0306 FB-512 V-DISK 50000 MR    MDISK 0307 FB-512 V-DISK 50000 MR    MDISK 0308 FB-512 V-DISK 50000 MR    MDISK 0309 FB-512 V-DISK 50000 MR    MDISK 0310 FB-512 V-DISK 50000 MR 

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