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AIX can't reduce fs space

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ogniemi

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Nov 7, 2003
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even after successfull defragfs AIX gives up...

fs has 290MB used and 1300MB free of total 1600MB

# df -vg /repo
Filesystem GB blocks Used Free %Used Iused Ifree %Iused Mounted on
/dev/mksysblv 1600.00 289.47 1310.53 19% 155 305407221 1% /repo
# chfs -a size=400M /repo
chfs: There is not enough free space to shrink the file system.
# chfs -a size=500M /repo
chfs: There is not enough free space to shrink the file system.
# chfs -a size=600M /repo
chfs: There is not enough free space to shrink the file system.
# chfs -a size=700M /repo
chfs: There is not enough free space to shrink the file system.
# chfs -a size=800M /repo
chfs: There is not enough free space to shrink the file system.
# chfs -a size=900M /repo
chfs: There is not enough free space to shrink the file system.



The must be a bug in AIX LVM?
 
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