Re: _My_ turn for a 2.1 wishlist

Klaus Lichtenwalder (klaus@gaston.m.isar.de)
Sun, 21 Jul 1996 09:02:22 +0100 (WET DST)


On Fri, 19 Jul 1996 joot@vnet.ibm.com wrote:

> > I know you can dynamically grow the filesystems in AIX, but when did
> > they
> > add the ability to shrink them? I use 4.1.4 at work, and I know you can
> > not there. Is it one of the new features in 4.2?
>
> Well, my turn to eat crow. I had been told that it was a feature of
> AIX 4.1 ( but not of AIX 3.2 ), but I had never actually tried it ( having
> trusted the well informed-ness of my information source. )... It seems
> that AIX 4.1 can only increase the size of a file system.
>
Yeat, tried it also, didn't work. But astuckey@leary.urbana.mcd.mot.com
(Anthony Stuckey) told me that there's a third party utility to do
exactly that.

Klaus
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