How to reduce filesystem size.
luis basto
luis at mavrick.UUCP
Fri Nov 9 05:58:51 AEST 1990
In article <8024 at adobe.UUCP>, jensen at 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.
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