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AIX Version 4.3 System Management Guide: Operating System and Devices

Changing or Removing a Paging Space

This procedure describes how to change or remove an existing paging space.

Attention: Removing default paging spaces incorrectly can prevent the system from restarting. This procedure should only be attempted by experienced system managers.
Note: You must deactivate the paging space before you can remove it. A special procedure is required for removing the default paging spaces (hd6, hd61, and so on). These paging spaces are activated during boot time by shell scripts that configure the system. To remove one of the default paging spaces, these scripts must be altered and a new boot image must be created.
Changing/Removing Paging Space Tasks
Web-based System Manager:    wsm lvm fast path
(Volumes application)

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Task Procedure
Changing the characteristics of a paging space smit chps
Removing a paging space
  1. Use smit chps and change the value of the RESTARTED field to no.
  2. Shut down and reboot the system:
    shutdown -r
  3. Show your default dump device:1
    sysdumpdev -l
  4. Remove the paging space:
    smit rmps
Note:
  1. If the paging space you are removing is the default dump device, you must change the default dump device to another paging space or logical volume before removing the paging space. To change the default dump device use the following command:

    sysdumpdev -P -p /dev/new_dump_device


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