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Old 02-04-2008
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Originally Posted by magasem View Post
I am looking only to reduce /usr to normal precentage such as expand the file or trnsfer to another file.
In most other UNIX dialects this might be a problem, but in AIX (you are in the AIX forum, so i suppose you use it, not any other UNIX dialect) it is not. The reason is, that practically all the files in /usr are put there by installation tools and the AIX installation tool (installp) will expand the filesystem itself if it runs out of space during an installation.

Most AIX systems are far into the nineties if i issue a "df -k /usr" and it never has posed a problem in the years i have been working with AIX.

I hope this helps.

bakunin