Managing Superdome Complexes: A Guide for HP-UX System Administrators

Conﬁguring and Managing Superdome Partitions

Procedures for Managing Partitions

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Step 2. If you plan to remove a remote partition that currently is active, then put

the partition into a ready-for-reconﬁg state.

If a partition is running HP-UX, you can shut down the partition to a

ready-for-reconﬁg state by using the shutdown -R -H command.

You also can put the partition into a ready-for-reconﬁg state using the

BCH interface’s RECONFIGRESET command or using the GSP command

menu’s RR command.

See Chapter 5 for details on resetting partitions.

Step 3. Save all current conﬁguration details about the partition you plan to

remove.

Use the parstatus -V -p# command to display all current

conﬁguration information related to the partition you plan to remove.

Save this information, as you can use it to manually recreate the

partition if necessary.

Step 4. Remove the partition.

There are two possible ways to remove a partition: removing the local

partition and removing an inactive remote partition.

• To remove an inactive remote partition perform the following steps.

1. Issue the parremove -p# command to remove the inactive remote

partition.

# parremove -p1

2. Issue the parstatus -P command to conﬁrm that the partition was

removed.

If the partition was removed, it no longer is listed in the

parstatus command’s output.

• To remove the local partition (the partition on which you currently

are issuing commands) perform the following steps.

1. Shut down all applications and warn users. Follow the same

procedures you would use if you were to reboot the partition.