Supervising the Network

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Managing the NetWare Directory Services Tree
Creating and Managing Directory Services Partitions
Aborting a Partition Operation
If you have begun the process of creating, merging, or moving a partition, or
changing a replica type, you can often abort the process, because partition
operations take time. You can abort a partition operation only before the
operation is in its final stages.
You should use this feature if you begin a partition operation and find that
your database will not synchronize.
If NDS cannot synchronize replica information in your database because the
database or replica information is corrupted, or because a server in your
Directory tree is down, you probably should abort any partition operation in
progress.
If you choose to abort a partition operation when there is no operation in
progress, no partitions are affected.
You can abort a partition operation using NetWare Administrator or
PARTMGR. Both procedures are described in this section.
Aborting a Partition Operation Using NetWare Administrator
Prerequisites
• A 386 or later workstation and NetWare Administrator
• A minimum of 6 MB of memory available on the workstation
• The Supervisor object right to the object at the root of the partition
Procedure
1 From the Windows Program Manager, click on the “NetWare Administrator”
icon.
2 From the “Tools” menu, choose “Partition Manager.”
3 To locate the partition that is executing a partition operation, browse the
“Partition Manager” screen.
If the container object does not appear in the window, browse the tree by either
selecting an object to see its subordinates or by selecting the arrow key to move
toward the Root. Your current context appears in the upper left corner of the
screen.
For information about moving around in the “Partition Manager” screen and
selecting objects, choose the “Help” button.