jensen@adobe.com (Freddy Jensen) (11/08/90)
Hi Folks,
I recently used the chfs command to expand the filesystems on my disk.
Unfortunately I made /usr unnecessarily large. Now chfs will not
allow me to reduce the size of /usr. Does anyone know how to do this
(other than reformatting the disk ;-) ?
Thanks
Freddy
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phone: (415) 962-3869 / 961-4400boote@bierstadt.scd.ucar.edu (Jeff W. Boote) (11/09/90)
In article <8024@adobe.UUCP>, jensen@adobe.com (Freddy Jensen) writes: > I recently used the chfs command to expand the filesystems on my disk. > Unfortunately I made /usr unnecessarily large. Now chfs will not > allow me to reduce the size of /usr. Does anyone know how to do this > (other than reformatting the disk ;-) ? Nope, currently chfs does not support reducing filesystems. Our rep says that will come with aix3.2. -- Jeff W. Boote SCD/NCAR boote@ncar.ucar.edu Boulder, Colo
luis@mavrick.UUCP (luis basto) (11/09/90)
In article <8024@adobe.UUCP>, jensen@adobe.com (Freddy Jensen) writes: > > I recently used the chfs command to expand the filesystems on my disk. > Unfortunately I made /usr unnecessarily large. Now chfs will not > allow me to reduce the size of /usr. Does anyone know how to do this > (other than reformatting the disk ;-) ? > chfs is a unidirectional command, ie, you can increase but not decrease a filesystem. To do what you want, try the following: 0. figure out how large you really want /usr to be remembering that it's very easy to increase it later 1. backup /usr 2. remove /usr -> you have to do this in maintainence mode 3. remake /usr with a smaller size 4. restore /usr You can do most of these steps in smit. Good luck. -- Luis Basto Work: (512) 823-3081 Usenet: ...!cs.utexas.edu!mavrick!luis
karish@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Chuck Karish) (11/09/90)
In article <8024@adobe.UUCP> jensen@adobe.COM () writes: > I recently used the chfs command to expand the filesystems on my disk. > Unfortunately I made /usr unnecessarily large. Now chfs will not > allow me to reduce the size of /usr. Does anyone know how to do this > (other than reformatting the disk ;-) ? - telinit 1 - umount all - archive /usr onto tape - delete the /usr logical volume, using smit or rmlv/rmfs/whatever - create a new /usr logical volume of the correct size - restore /usr from tape - mount all - telinit 2 A bit tedious, but it does save all the installation/update/patching/ configuring you've done in /usr. -- Chuck Karish karish@mindcraft.com
dwatts@ki.UUCP (Dan Watts) (11/10/90)
In article <8024@adobe.UUCP> jensen@adobe.COM () writes: >Hi Folks, > > I recently used the chfs command to expand the filesystems on my disk. > Unfortunately I made /usr unnecessarily large. Now chfs will not > allow me to reduce the size of /usr. Does anyone know how to do this > (other than reformatting the disk ;-) ? If you do come across something, I'd really like to know to. From the feedback I've gotten here on my similar posting, we're SOL. We just spent two days backing up and restoring. Took us a few trys to get it right :-( -- ##################################################################### # CompuServe: >INTERNET:uunet.UU.NET!ki!dwatts Dan Watts # # UUCP : ...!{uunet | wgc386}!ki!dwatts Ki Research, Inc. # ############### New Dimensions In Network Connectivity ##############