Stop fsadm defragementation process

[Gordon Fong]

Hi all,

I just want to know if there is any "safe way" to stop the runnning fsadm defragementation process? By just Ctrl+C or else? Also anyone know how to check out the defrag. status of the filesystem, I mean how to determine when it end?

Bgds,
Gordon

[Michael Tully]

Not sure of exactly whether this will report exactly what your after, but there is an example in the man page 'fsadm_vxfs'

fsadm -E [-l largesize] [-r rawdev] mount_point

I don't think using control-C will do any damage other than to stop the de-frag at a perhaps unknown point. You will need to run it again from the start.

[Fragon]

I think this may be safer:
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#ps -ef |grep fsadm
#kill -15 PID_of_fsadm
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-15 parameter will let the process terminate after concerned I/O operations are completed.

-Gerald-