How to reduce filesystem size.

Jeff W. Boote boote at bierstadt.scd.ucar.edu
Fri Nov 9 05:49:09 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 ;-) ?

Nope, currently chfs does not support reducing filesystems.  Our rep says
that will come with aix3.2.

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Jeff W. Boote                   SCD/NCAR
boote at ncar.ucar.edu           Boulder, Colo



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