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Managing nPartitions

Unassigning (Removing) Cells from an nPartition

HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions, rev 5.1

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• If you have removed one or more active cells from the nPartition,

then Partition Manager provides more info about performing the

required reboot for reconﬁg of the nPartition.

You must reboot the nPartition as soon as possible, so you should

click the Yes button to exit Partition Manager and proceed with the

next step of this procedure.

Step 9. As needed, perform a reboot for reconﬁg (shutdown -R) of the modiﬁed

nPartition.

• If you have removed only inactive cells from an nPartition, then you

do not need to perform a reboot for reconﬁg of the nPartition.

• If you have removed any active cells from the nPartition, then you

must perform a reboot for reconﬁg and will have seen a detailed

message about rebooting from Partition Manager (see Steps 7 and 8).

After you issue the shutdown -R command, the nPartition performs

the reboot for reconﬁg. If you selected the “Automatically boot

partition” check box earlier in this procedure (see Step 7), then the

nPartition is active after the reboot for reconﬁg and you can interact

with it through its console.

If you did not select the “Automatically boot partition” check box,

then the nPartition is inactive (at the ready for reconﬁg state) after

the reboot for reconﬁg occurs. In this situation, you can make the

nPartition active by using the service processor Command menu’s BO

command.