Supervising the Network

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Managing the NetWare Directory Services Tree

Creating and Managing Directory Services Partitions

If you want to make additional replicas of this partition, see “Creating a

Replica” in this chapter.

Additional Information

Creating a Partition Using PARTMGR

Prerequisites

• A workstation running DOS 3.30 or later and PARTMGR

• A minimum of 512 KB of memory available on the workstation

• The Supervisor object right to the container object you are partitioning

Procedure

1 At the DOS prompt, type

PARTMGR <Enter>

2 From the “Partition Administration” menu, select “Manage Partitions.”

Your current context appears in the upper left corner of the screen.

3 Select the container object to partition.

• If the container you want to partition appears in the list, select it and press

<F10>.

• If the container is not in the list, browse the directory by selecting containers

and pressing <Enter> until you see the container you want. Select it and press

<F10>.

4 Choose “Yes” to create the new partition.

The new partition is created when the process is completed on the servers. To

see the partition icon that signiﬁes that a container is a partition, you need to

refresh the screen by choosing the up-arrow and then expanding the parent

container again.

For more information about Refer to

Partitions “NetWare Directory partition,” “Partition

management,” and “Replica” in Concepts

Using NetWare Administrator

“NetWare Administrator” in Utilities

Reference