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Offline pVC

Re: Device names (DH0:, CDH0:, etc.) help on A2000
« on: June 14, 2013, 09:46:25 AM »
Quote from: blakespot;737765
These are the partitions:

CDH0: 2GB
CDH1: 999MB
CDH2: 1GB

So I copied my old physical disk (720MB) content to CDH1: after formatting it. I then removed that disk (wanted it out). So the boot volume I want to go forward with is on CDH1:.

Is this fine? Is it ok to have my Work or Data volume the larger CDH0: (lower #)? A lot of my boot scripts reference DH0: so I need to change them to reflect the new device names. I could rename the devices I guess, to make CDH1: DH0: I guess, but I kind of like the C prefix for card.

Is it easy to just make the boot called CDH0:, renaming the 2GB part CDH1: for my own pref?

One option is to keep those CDH0, CDH1 and CDH2, if you like them, but then add "Assign DH0: CDH1:" in your startup-sequence or user-startup (depending when you start pointing to that device on your own stuff, probably enough in user-startup).

For these kinds of situations it's good to make assigns and other configurations to SYS: rather than fixed partition names. Then you can copy system around more easily. SYS: points always to boot device.

I have also found useful to add for example Utils: assign and configure all programs to use that rather than fixed path again. Then it doesn't matter where or which disk the programs are located, until I have that assign set where ever I want it.
« Last Edit: June 14, 2013, 09:50:55 AM by pVC »
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