Supervising the Network

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Managing the NetWare Directory Services Tree

Creating and Managing Directory Services Partitions

Merging Partitions 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 object at the root of the parent partition

Procedure

1 At the DOS prompt, type

PARTMGR <Enter>

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

3 Select the partition to merge.

• If the partition appears in the list, select it and press <F10>.

• If the partition is not on the list, browse the directory by selecting objects and

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

<F10>.

4 Choose “Merge with the Parent Partition.”

5 Choose “Yes” to merge the selected partition with the parent.

The partition is merged when the process is completed on the servers. To see that

the icon of the partition you merged is gone (which signiﬁes that the merge is

complete), you need to refresh the screen by choosing the up arrow and then

expanding the container again.

Merging a partition with its parent partition might take some time, since the

replicas need to be deleted and the parent replicas updated with the merging

partition information.

Additional Information

For more information about Refer to

Partitions “Partition, Directory Services,”

“Partition management,” and “Replica” in

Concepts

Using NetWare Administrator

“NetWare Administrator” in Utilities

Reference