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Operating Systems AIX jfs2 - cannot shrink filesystem Post 302295927 by zxmaus on Tuesday 10th of March 2009 02:43:39 AM
Old 03-10-2009
jfs2 - cannot shrink filesystem

Hi,
is anyone aware about filesystem size restrictions on AIX? And does anyone know a solution for below problem?

I have 2 boxes attached to EMC Raid5 storage, both have huge /optware/oracle/oradata filesystems - 4.5 and 2.5 TB in size, nothing is striped or in any other way restricted. Due to system optimization, I migrated off a couple of databases - now I have about 2 TB free space in the 4.5 TB filesystem and more than 1 TB in the other one - which I would like to reclaim for reusage somewhere else - but I cannot reduce the filesystem sizes by any amount of space. When I issue the command, it never finishes - its not erroring out, its just running without doing anything. Extending the filesystems still works - though it coredumps but the size at least changes. But reducing doesnt work at all.

Does anybody know another solution for me than migrating off the remains and just dropping the filesystems?

I raised this already with EMC and IBM but both did not come back with any solution other than drop and recreate - and I'd like to avoid re-occurrence on other systems hence the restriction question.

Thanks and regards
zxmaus
 

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UMOUNT(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 						 UMOUNT(8)

NAME
umount -- unmount filesystems SYNOPSIS
umount [-fv] special | node umount -a | -A [-fv] [-h host] [-t type] DESCRIPTION
The umount command calls the unmount(2) system call to remove a special device or the remote node (rhost:path) from the filesystem tree at the point node. If either special or node are not provided, the appropriate information is taken from the fstab(5) file. The options are as follows: -a All the filesystems described in fstab(5) are unmounted. -A All the currently mounted filesystems except the root are unmounted. -f The filesystem is forcibly unmounted. Active special devices continue to work, but all other files return errors if further accesses are attempted. The root filesystem cannot be forcibly unmounted. -h host Only filesystems mounted from the specified host will be unmounted. This option is implies the -A option and, unless otherwise spec- ified with the -t option, will only unmount NFS filesystems. -t type Is used to indicate the actions should only be taken on filesystems of the specified type. More than one type may be specified in a comma separated list. The list of filesystem types can be prefixed with ``no'' to specify the filesystem types for which action should not be taken. For example, the umount command: umount -a -t nfs,hfs umounts all filesystems of the type NFS and HFS. -v Verbose, additional information is printed out as each filesystem is unmounted. FILES
/etc/fstab filesystem table SEE ALSO
unmount(2), fstab(5), mount(8) HISTORY
A umount command appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX. 4th Berkeley Distribution May 8, 1995 4th Berkeley Distribution
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