Technical data

Managing nPartitions

Removing (Deleting) an nPartition

HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions, rev 5.1

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If the remote nPartition is running HP-UX, you can shut down the

nPartition to the ready for reconﬁg state by 1) logging in to HP-UX on

the remote nPartition, 2) shutting down all applications and warning

users, and 3) issuing the shutdown -R -H command.

You also can put the nPartition into the ready for reconﬁg state by using

the BCH interface’s RECONFIGRESET command or the service processor

Command menu’s RR command.

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

remove.

Use the parstatus -V -p

command to display all current

conﬁguration information related to the nPartition you plan to remove.

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

nPartition if necessary at a later time.

Step 4. Remove the nPartition.

Use one of the following procedures (Removing an Inactive Remote

nPartition or Removing the Local nPartition) to remove the nPartition.

• Removing an Inactive Remote nPartition

1. Issue the parremove -p

command to remove the inactive

remote nPartition, where the -p

option speciﬁes the partition

number. For example:

# parremove -p1

2. Issue the parstatus -P command to conﬁrm that the nPartition

was removed.

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

parstatus command’s output.

• Removing the Local nPartition

To remove the local nPartition (the nPartition 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 nPartition.