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Operating Systems HP-UX Could I mount a swap/dump partition on /tmp? Post 302407732 by vbe on Friday 26th of March 2010 08:33:27 AM
Old 03-26-2010
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We can reduce this space without problem ?
without problem, no...
It is going to ask for a reboot and boot from a make_recovery tape or so... to be able to change the size means almost reinstalling...
Or you try to create swap elsewhere and change priority order which will let you try after to comment out /dev/vg00/lvol2 and then try to reduce... (dont know if Online-JFS will let you with the swap device active...)
 

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