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Managing nPartitions
Rebooting to Implement nPartition Changes
HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions, rev 5.1 249
• Reset an nPartition to the ready for reconfig state (shutdown -R -H)
to make the nPartition inactive.
All cells in an nPartition remain inactive when the nPartition is in
the ready for reconfig state; the cells do not perform a partition
rendezvous.
• Perform a standard reboot (shutdown -r) of an nPartition in most
other situations where you do not need to add or remove cells from
the nPartition.
A standard reboot causes only the currently active cells in an
nPartition to reboot, and it does not allow any pending complex
configuration changes to complete (the changes remain pending, still
requiring a reboot for reconfig for them to be in effect).
Pending changes that require a reboot for reconfig (shutdown -R, not
a shutdown -r) include removing an active cell from an nPartition.
The cell cannot be unassigned until its nPartition has a reboot for
reconfig performed.
Other changes, such as adding a cell to an nPartition or changing a
cell’s use-on-next-boot value from “n” to “y”, also require performing
a reboot for reconfig (shutdown -R, nor -r) to enable the inactive cell
to become active.