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From: gregfife@aix.aix.kingston.ibm.com (Greg Fife)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Updating AIX 1.2 (Suggestion)
Summary: take /usr/man offline to gain space
Message-ID: <4242@aix.aix.kingston.ibm.com>
Date: 23 Oct 90 16:49:15 GMT
References: <1419@msa3b.UUCP>
Reply-To: gregfife@plkse.iinus1.ibm.com
Organization: IBM Corporation, Kingston NY
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In article <1419@msa3b.UUCP> kevin@msa3b.UUCP (Kevin P. Kleinfelter) writes:

>My approach was to
>   rm -rf /usr/lpp/X11
>   rm -rf /usr/lpp/x11smpls
>

Another thing you can do is tar up and remove /usr/man.

     cd /usr/man
     tar cdf - . | compress > /tmp/man.tar.Z
     if you are paranoid, ftp man.Z to some place with enough disk
     cd /
     rm -rf /usr/man

The BOS update may create a new /usr/man/cat1/dbx.1.  
/usr/man and /usr/man/cat1 will be recreated if they are not present.

This should free up about 7,500 blocks. 

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