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From: moody@snap.austin.ibm.com
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Subject: Re: Slimming down a file system
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Date: 5 Apr 91 19:25:16 GMT
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In article <1991Apr4.192525.28679@panix.uucp> eravin@panix.uucp (Ed Ravin) writes:
>During the install process on my PowerServer 520, the installer slurped
>up all the free file system space and gave it to /usr.  But ....
>there's lots of
>space left over I would rather put in /u or elsewhere.
>.....IBM only supplies
>commands to expand file systems, not shrink them.
>Has anyone else here encountered this?

This is a horrible consequence of not putting the install images in some
other place besides /usr in the first place.   You might be able to 
put the install images in /tmp before installing.  Then use

installp -f /tmp/<image_file> all

or similar incantation to install that image.  I think IBM should 
have the install programs do it this way too but there may be problems
with this that I don't know about.  It's a lot less trouble to grow
a file system than to shrink it.

>Ed Ravin


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