Re: Dropping chunk: Manual correct?
Posted in 1997
At 11:31 AM 9/10/97 -0700, you 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.
You want to use/pass the path to the chunk you want to drop.
Jon
}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.
}
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