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Date:      Sat, 8 Nov 1997 22:16:48 -0500 (EST)
From:      Bill Pechter <pechter@lakewood.com>
To:        softweyr@xmission.com (Wes Peters)
Cc:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Partitioning
Message-ID:  <199711090316.WAA22759@i4got.lakewood.com>
In-Reply-To: <199711080439.VAA25650@obie.softweyr.ml.org> from Wes Peters at "Nov 7, 97 09:39:31 pm"

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Wes Peters writes:
> Jay Nelson writes:
>  > I'm _really_ interested in knowing how you reduced an AIX file system
>  > on the fly without blowing your feet off. The "official" way to reduce
>  > an AIX file system is a restore from a mksysb.
> 
> Nah, you can shrink the size of a live volume through SMIT.  It's the
> coolest feature in all of AIX-land.  I imagine *this* was some wild ugly
> code to get right.
> 
> -- 
>           "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
> 
> Wes Peters                                                       Softweyr LLC
> http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr                       softweyr@xmission.com
> 

Yeah, you can shrink 'em in 4.x... but in 3.2.5 you couldn't.

Bill

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