To shrink a filesystem on AIX is not simple task like it can by on some other operating systems, for instance RHEL 6 has an option to re-size up or down the filesystem and logical volume all in one command, although it requires it to unmount as part of the process.
Actually this is correct only historically. Since IIRC version 5.3 it is possible to shrink a filesystem. Initially it was possible only if the end of the underlying LV (from where the shrinking took place) was not already used by files but since then AIX does a "reorgfs" automatically as it seems. The only restricition (obviously) is that the resulting size must be big enough to hold all the existing data.
To shrink a FS (and the underlying LV as well) do, analogous to a growth:
I hope this helps.
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