Maintenance partition

Hi,

In a P55A, I have a partition that I can't drop
it is a maintenance partition...
What is the utility of maintenance partition ?
I have other P55A with only one partition (not maintenance)

Thanks for your help

Hi
anybody knows what is a maintenance partition ???

"astalavista" <nobody@nowhere.com> a écrit dans le message de news:
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> Hi,
>
> In a P55A, I have a partition that I can't drop
> it is a maintenance partition...
> What is the utility of maintenance partition ?
> I have other P55A with only one partition (not maintenance)
>
> Thanks for your help
>
>
>
>[/color]

On Sep 4, 7:50 am, "astalavista" <nob...@nowhere.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi
> anybody knows what is a maintenance partition ???
>
> "astalavista" <nob...@nowhere.com> a écrit dans le message de news:
> 48b03464$0$31498$426a7...@news.free.fr...
>[color=green]
> > Hi,[/color]
>[color=green]
> > In a P55A, I have a partition that I can't drop
> > it is a maintenance partition...
> > What is the utility of maintenance partition ?
> > I have other P55A with only one partition (not maintenance)[/color]
>[color=green]
> > Thanks for your help[/color][/color]

you're asking the wrong question. Include more detail

Henry wrote:[color=blue]
> On Sep 4, 7:50 am, "astalavista" <nob...@nowhere.com> wrote:[color=green]
>> Hi
>> anybody knows what is a maintenance partition ???
>>
>> "astalavista" <nob...@nowhere.com> a écrit dans le message de news:
>> 48b03464$0$31498$426a7...@news.free.fr...
>>[color=darkred]
>>> Hi,
>>> In a P55A, I have a partition that I can't drop
>>> it is a maintenance partition...
>>> What is the utility of maintenance partition ?
>>> I have other P55A with only one partition (not maintenance)
>>> Thanks for your help[/color][/color]
>
> you're asking the wrong question. Include more detail[/color]

I think he's asking the right question. At least it sounds
familiar.

If "astalavista" wants to remove all partitions from a system,
including maintenance partitions (which I had to do once when
inheriting a system) use the HMC (version 7 for Power6 systems):

Go to Systems Management, then Servers in the left navigation
pane.

Select your system in the upper right pane.

In the Tasks section below that, go to Configuration, Manage Partition
Data, then Delete.

IIRC this is how you wipe out a system completely. Applicable when
someone has created partition ID 1 and you don't like that, either.

If I don't have this right, apologies. But I know that somwhere on the
HMC you can wipe out a server and start over completely. You'll just
have to find it in there somewhere.