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From: kevin@msa3b.UUCP (Kevin P. Kleinfelter)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: minidisks command won't delete
Message-ID: <1426@msa3b.UUCP>
Date: 25 Oct 90 17:09:21 GMT
References: <1418@msa3b.UUCP> <1990Oct22.101919@fenway.aix.kingston.ibm.com> <1990Oct24.031522.22788@jdyx.UUCP> <1990Oct24.131050.11861@ecn.purdue.edu>
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milton@ecn.purdue.edu (Milton D Miller) writes:

>In article <1990Oct24.031522.22788@jdyx.UUCP> shawn@jdyx.UUCP (Shawn Hayes) writes:
>>
>>  I'm not so sure that using the maintenance diskettes will let you delete
>>/u.  I had been using /u for testing raw disk interfaces and wanted to
>>clean it up.  Since I wasn't sure of how to do it I thought I'd delete it
>>and recreate it.  I could not delete it when running the minidisk command
>>and I could not delete when I booted off my maintenance diskette.  
>>
>>Shawn

>It is definately possible to do this from the VRM maintnace facility,
>as I did this once (I wanted to move the file system to another minidisk).

Someone chopped off the original request which stated AIX 1.2.
I guess I'll have to call IBM and request the VRM diskette for AIX 1.2?
:-)

Seriously, after messing with this for too long, I decided it would be
faster to re-install. (Let's see, this should make about the 50th install.
:-( 

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