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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2002
Filed:
Aug. 13, 1999
Theron M. Stoddard, Highland, UT (US);
Blaine S. Dennis, Alpine, UT (US);
Robert S. Raymond, Orem, UT (US);
PowerQuest Corporation, Orem, UT (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems are provided for manipulating data in segmented environments such as an instance of a NetWare file system. Unlike the conventional approach that relies on FDISK and the install.nlm and nwconfig.nlm utilities in NetWare, the invention does not destroy user data on the disk after the data is copied to tape or other intermediate storage. Segment-related features such as limits on the number of segments; various configurations of segments, volumes and partitions among drives; and data mirroring, are handled by the invention during “in place” manipulations. Segments, volumes, partitions, and segment clusters or blocks may each be resized. Segments may be merged. Volumes may be consolidated on a single drive. Other manipulations and various combinations of manipulations are also provided.