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Re: Lost Minidisk Space

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From: Eliot Wilson
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1992 13:53
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In article <BsC3pz.756@news.cso.uiuc.edu> maxson@cerl.uiuc.edu (K R Maxson) writes:
>I have 168000 blocks of inaccessible space on one of the disks in my
>RT.  Here is what the minidisks page for the drive looks like:
>
>MD   MD    MD    Block  Number  MD      Mount		Auto Auto  R/W
>Name IODN  Type  Size   Blocks  Locatn  Directory	IPL  Mount Status
>hd0  16384 AIX   512    35000   B       /		Y     Y    R/W
>hd1  16386 AIX   512    20000   B       /u      	N     Y    R/W
>     20001 AIX   512    168000  B,M,E
>Available Space  512    560     E	********************************
>
>How do I get this disk space back?  Apparently I can only change, delete,
>etc. partitions by name.  I'm running AIX 2.1.  Help!
>
>Please reply by email to maxson@unicorn.cerl.uiuc.edu.

Use the mdrc command it's "minidisk recovery" it should recover the minidisks,
and give it a name, and then you can delete it as you wish.
Good luck.

-ELiot
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From: ewilson@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Eliot Wilson)
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 92 13:53:55 GMT
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