Messages in this thread |  | | From | <> (Peeter Joot) | Subject | Re: _My_ turn for a 2.1 wishlist | Date | Fri, 19 Jul 1996 09:45:09 -0400 (EDT) |
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> > (Peeter Joot) wrote: > > > It does. The AIX file/disk system is quite neat -- you can dynamically > > grow and shrink file systems and partitions on the fly ( while the > > system is in full use ). It's also journaled and fully supports raid > > arrays. > > > > I know that some people are working on a journaled file system for > > Linux like in AIX. I could take or leave this, but I'd sure like > > a Linux filesystem/partition set up that is as flexible as AIX's. > > I know you can dynamically grow the filesystems in AIX, but when did > they > add the ability to shrink them? I use 4.1.4 at work, and I know you can > not there. Is it one of the new features in 4.2?
Well, my turn to eat crow. I had been told that it was a feature of AIX 4.1 ( but not of AIX 3.2 ), but I had never actually tried it ( having trusted the well informed-ness of my information source. )... It seems that AIX 4.1 can only increase the size of a file system.
Peeter
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