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Date: Tue, 01 Oct 1996 10:10:17 -0400
From: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.medford.ma.us>
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> 1> Extendability should be transparent.
> AIX does this one right IMHO, allowing for live expansion of file
> systems, HP-UX (at least in 10.01) made you unmount the filesystem.

This actually depends on the filesystem.

HP-UX 10 includes UFS and VxFS (though they're called HFS and JFS for
marketing reasons).  If you have the full-strength (extra cost) VxFS
installed you can expand it without unmounting..

					- Bill