From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Nov 8 19:17:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA09451 for chat-outgoing; Sat, 8 Nov 1997 19:17:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat) Received: from shell.monmouth.com (root@shell.monmouth.com [205.231.236.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA09446 for ; Sat, 8 Nov 1997 19:16:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pechter@lakewood.com) Received: from i4got.lakewood.com (ppp2.monmouth.com [205.164.220.34]) by shell.monmouth.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA10087; Sat, 8 Nov 1997 22:12:31 -0500 (EST) Received: (from pechter@localhost) by i4got.lakewood.com id WAA22759 (8.8.5/IDA-1.6); Sat, 8 Nov 1997 22:16:49 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Pechter Message-ID: <199711090316.WAA22759@i4got.lakewood.com> Subject: Re: Partitioning In-Reply-To: <199711080439.VAA25650@obie.softweyr.ml.org> from Wes Peters at "Nov 7, 97 09:39:31 pm" To: softweyr@xmission.com (Wes Peters) Date: Sat, 8 Nov 1997 22:16:48 -0500 (EST) Cc: chat@freebsd.org Reply-to: pechter@lakewood.com X-Phone-Number: 908-389-3592 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bill Pechter | 17 Meredith Drive Tinton Falls, NJ 07724 | 732-389-3592 pechter@lakewood.com | Save computing history, give an old geek old hardware. This msg brought to you by the letters PDP and the number 11.