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- From: fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox)
- Subject: Re: Unstacking Stacked Disks
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.235845.7220@rei.com>
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 23:58:45 GMT
- References: <1992Sep3.153713.23583@decuac.dec.com>
- Organization: Recognition Equipment, Inc.
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- jeff@ryhope.del.dec.com (Jeff Finkelstein) writes:
-
- >Does anyone know how to unstack a disk stacked with STACKER 2.0?
-
- Yes. Backup, then restore. You should already have a backup anyway
- (right??). :)
-
- >The problem, of course, is to do it on the same device without copying it to
- >another disk.
-
- It could be done, but not quickly. Run SDEFRAG/G to shrink the stacker
- drive as small as possible. Then copy as much as you can off the drive
- onto the uncompressed part. Then run SDEFRAG/G again and shrink the
- drive some more. Repeat until finished. This is pretty much the
- inverse of the INSTALL operation, but it is not automated.
-
- A backup/restore would take less time.
-
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