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ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:

>Thanks to all the people who wrote. Apparently it 
>can't be done painlessly, and can only be done if you
>can back up the stacker volume.

The first statement is true, the last statment is not true, at least in
theory.  It is EASIER to backup and restore, but if you don't have any
secondary media, it is not possible.  However, I believe it is somewhat
foolish not to have a backup of your system at any time.  That being
said...

The SDEFRAG program has a /G option which can be used to shrink the size
of the Stacker drive.  If you use this option to free up as much space as
you can on the uncompressed drive, then you can copy lots of files from
the Stacker drive to the uncompressed drive.  This will free up space on
the stacked drive, and you can then run SDEFRAG/G again to free up some
more uncompressed space.  Repeat until all files are copied.

This is a very painful way to go, and does not have the security of the
backup/restore method if something goes wrong.  It is basically the
inverse operation of the automated Stacker INSTALL utility.

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