[rescue] Sun 5.7 disk partion juggling

[Michael A. Turner]

> > alone getting them to do another. The very Idea of sending 
> them into single
> > user mode over the phone to direct them is making me naseous....
> >
> OOoooohhh....   (or perhaps EEeeww...)
> I understand completely.  editing a partition table by hand 
> is about as close 
> to safe and foolproof as Brain Surgery.  Somehow I don't 
> think these folks 
> spend the night at Holiday Inn Express...
> 
> If there was another machine you could get them to hook up 
> serial-x-serial, 
> and there was enough space in other partitions for tar'ing 
> the data to, I 
> (that's *me*... YMMV)  _might_ try doing it remotely...
> 
> George

	Hmm that actually sounds like fun to try. Unfortunatly I doubt they
have any more sun (or unix style) gear laying around to give that a try
from. 
	I also have a terrible conflict of interests now. They are talking
about replacing these units with groupwise servers. They have made a verbal
commitment to give me the sparcs ( about three of them, maybe more) with all
associated stuff when that is done. So if I fix them to well then I don't
get them, I don't want them to go groupwise/windows but if I talk them out
of it I loose the extra sparcs, and if I teach them to the level were they
can maintain them themselves I loose both the sparcs and possibly my job.
It's hard to fight my sense of doing a job right and my sense of greed here.


Michael A. Turner
Systems Engineer
WHRO
michael.turner at whro.org
http://www.whro.org