dropping a chunk
Posted in 1992
>A client of of ours was playing with OnLine, and created a chunk on the
>cooked file system. When he was done, he decided "Okay, I'm through."
>and did an "rm mychunk" from. Note that he didn't bother to drop the dbspace
>inside of OnLine. So now he has a dbspace that OnLine thinks it knows about,
>but which doesn't exist.
>
>So.
>
>Any ideas on how to drop it from OnLine? We've tried the quickie
>cat /dev/null > mychunk
>and tried to drop it, but OnLine complains that it's not empty.
>
>Thanx,
>
>Will
This sounds like a problem I had with TURBO! I thought this would have
been fixed. The only way I was able to drop a chunk was to make a dbexport
of the db, reinitialize, then add the chunks I wanted and import my database.
If anybody knows of another way, I'd like to here about it.
Good Luck,
Brian MacWilliams
USAMC SIMA HQ
CHAMBERSBURG, PA