Re: Dropping chunk: Manual correct?

Cosmo Lee wrote: > > I want to drop a chunk from a dbspace. I've done this before with > `onspaces -d` and giving the path to the chunk I want to drop. But > closer reading of the manual has confused me. > > In my Online 7.2 Administrator's Guide, pg 39-53, referring to `onspaces > -d` it states that the "-p" pathname is to "the *initial* chunk of the > blobspace or dbspace you are dropping". Is that right??? If I indicate > the initial chunk of the dbspace, aren't I dropping the first chunk? > There's no place else on the command line to indicate the chunk to drop. > > Is it me or is this badly worded? It seems to me that this wording > could lead someone to inadvertently drop the wrong chunk, if they were > following the instructions carefully. Badly worded. That "initial chunk of" language is in several places where it does not belong. What it should say is that "pathname and offset together identify the chunk to be dropped". BTW you cannot drop the initial chunk of a dbspace anyway. Art S. Kagel