Re: _My_ turn for a 2.1 wishlist
Ove Ewerlid (joot@vnet.ibm.com)
Thu, 18 Jul 1996 10:08:31 -0400 (EDT)
>
> On Wed, 17 Jul 1996 joot@vnet.ibm.com wrote:
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> >
> > It does. The AIX file/disk system is quite neat -- you can dynamically
> > grow and shrink file systems and partitions on the fly ( while the
> > system is in full use ). It's also journaled and fully supports raid
> > arrays.
> >
> Since when is it possible to shrink the file system? In 3.2.5 (didn't
> test on 4.1) it is only possible to *grow* a fs. Bad thing if you had a
> virgin hd and mistyped the new size... Now other way than makeing a
> backup, and re-create the partition anew.
AIX 3.2 could only grow the file systems, but 4.1 can grow or shrink them.
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