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- Path: sparky!uunet!murphy!jpradley!grumpy
- From: grumpy@jpradley.jpr.com (Jeff Markel)
- Subject: Re: Reducing filesystem size
- Reply-To: grumpy@jpradley.UUCP (Jeff Markel)
- Organization: Unix in NYC
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 12:34:57 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.123457.16937@jpradley.jpr.com>
- References: <1992Aug19.203658.23130@godzilla.quotron.com>
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- In article <1992Aug19.203658.23130@godzilla.quotron.com> greg@godzilla.quotron.com (Greg "Maddog" Knauss) writes:
- >How, exactly, do you reducing the size of /usr? The normal method of
- >shrinking a filesystem is to copy it to tape, remove it, re-create it at
- >the new size and move the files back. But /usr has libc.a and if you
- >remove that, the machine staggers around a little and then dies. Anybody
- >have any ideas? (THAT'S the last time I do a full installation of Info
- >Explorer...)
- >--
- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- > Greg "Maddog" Knauss My boss doesn't know I'm doing this,
- > greg@{duke|godzilla}.quotron.com so I doubt he'd agree with me.
- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- One way you could do it is to run mkszfile, reduce the size of /usr in .fs.size,
- then do a mksysb backup, and re-install the system from the backup.
- Of course you'd then have to re-configure some odm stuff that doesn't carry
- across a system image install, but it doesn't amount to that much...
-
-
- Jeff Markel
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