I used to work on both AIX 3.1.x and 3.2.x.....I was easily able to
increase the size of filesystem on 3.2....of course there first had
to be available allocated blocks on the "logical" volume first...if
not, then on the volume group....in any case if there was disk space
unallocated then you would increase the size of the volume group, if
needed, then the size of the logical volume if needed, and only then
can the size of the filesystem be increased _on_the_fly_.
This is a great feature which must be used prudently!
> On Fri, 19 Jul 1996 joot@vnet.ibm.com wrote:
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> > > 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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