How to reduce filesystem size.

[Chuck Karish]

In article <8024 at adobe.UUCP> jensen at 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.
 
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	Chuck Karish	karish at mindcraft.com