Re: stopping nim?

From: Ulrich Koerner (kq1_at_gmx.net)
Date: 10/30/03


Date: 30 Oct 2003 00:31:45 -0800

Mike <mikee@mikee.ath.cx> wrote in message news:<vq0gf3s15pi96d@corp.supernews.com>...
> I need to modify the /export/nim filesystem. What command do I
> use to bring down nim on the master so I can umount and modify the
> filesystem? The issue I have is creating a mksysb from a server I have
> added as a nim client. The mksysb is too large for the filesystem I
> think because the filesystem was not created with large-file-support. So
> what I want to do is umount the filesystem, to make sure everything
> is closed/sync'd, create a new filesystem with large-file-support, tar
> across the stuff from the old to the new filesystems, then switch the
> values in /etc/filesystems.
>
> Mike

To stop nim you should stop the nimesis (stopsrc -s nimesis). The
better way would be to create a special filesystem for all mksysb
files (large file enabled) and to mount it into the nim filesystem.

Regards - Ulli



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