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From: kevin@msa3b.UUCP (Kevin P. Kleinfelter)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Disk Fragmentation Under AIX 3
Message-ID: <1359@msa3b.UUCP>
Date: 31 Aug 90 15:17:49 GMT
Organization: Management Science America, Inc., Atlanta, GA
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AIX V3 has this nice featury which allows me to extend the size of my
partitions dynamically.  I've been merrily using it to extend some of
my partitions a few meg at a time.  At this point, I imagin that physically,
I must have fragments of various filesystems intermixed.  Sooner or later,
I'm going to need to de-fragment the disk.

Without the dynamic extensions, I would just backup, mkfs, and restore
(well, actually I'd backup, backup, backup, mkfs, and restore!)

Will I also need to delete the partitions and recreate them?

Also, since several installs have extended the root partition, there are
probably root fragments scattered around the physical disk.  Am I going to
have to re-install?  "info" provides little advice on the obvious searches on
this topic.
-- 
Kevin Kleinfelter @ Dun and Bradstreet Software, Inc (404) 239-2347
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