Ontape

Hi, Please see attached out output from onstat -d below INFORMIX-OnLine Version 7.13.UC2 -- On-Line (Prim) -- Up 40 days 10:27:58 -- 133184 Kbytes Chunks offset size free flags pathname 0 100000 99209 PO- /ws/PRD1/root1 0 1000000 11650 PO- /ws/PRD1/comets1 0 1000000 552553 PO- /ws/PRD1/ntcdat1 0 1000000 999947 PO- /ws/PRD1/wiplth1 0 1000000 456235 PO- /ws/PRD1/ntcenh1 100000 100000 82447 PO- /ws/PRD1/log1 200000 50000 2447 PO- /ws/PRD1/phy1 0 50000 30975 PO- /ws/PRD1/cmtsum1 50000 50000 37516 PO- /ws/PRD1/wiplot1 0 1000000 999947 PO- /ws/PRD1/lecdat1 0 1000000 575379 PO- /ws/PRD1/comets2 0 1000000 999997 PO- /ws/PRD1/comets3 0 1000000 0 PO- /ws/PRD1/lecdat2 0 1000000 0 PO- /ws/PRD1/wiplth2 0 1000000 999997 PO- /ws/PRD1/wiplth3 0 1000000 999997 PO- /ws/PRD1/wiplth4 0 1000000 999997 PO- /ws/PRD1/wiplth5 0 1000000 999997 PO- /ws/PRD1/wiplth6 0 1000000 999997 PO- /ws/PRD1/wiplth7 0 1000000 999997 PO- /ws/PRD1/wiplth8 0 50000 49797 PO- /ws/PRD1/dbtemp 0 250000 249997 PO- /ws/PRD1/dbtemp2 What we need to do (its along story) is to restore this to a machine with much less disk space as the one that the ontape -s came from. As you can see the actual used space comes to about 10Gb yet more than 30 has been allocated. Is it possible to squeeze the data from the ontape -s (using ontape -r) into a 10Gb area (say of 2x5Gb chunks) using offsets etc. Documentation seems to suggest that if we archived it from a chunk of 2Gb, even if only 2Mb was used within it, to restore it on another machine would need a chunk of 2Gb to restore it into. Therefore the machine on which it is to be restored needs in excess of 30Gb in free space. Am I way out here or is this the way Informix works. This is a particularly urgent problem so immediate replies would be greatly appreciated. Regards Lee