STAC ELECTRONICS TECHNICAL SUPPORT BULLETIN NUMBER: 007 SUBJECT: SREMOVE; STACKER-MISC DATE: May 24, 1991 TIME: 3:06 PM SOURCE: Tech Support, User's Manual SUPERCEDES/ SUPERCEDED BY: RELEASE STATUS: Public TITLE: Removing a STACKER volume completely; down/upsizing a drive. OVERVIEW: STACKER's SREMOVE utility is used in the process of both permanently removing a STACKER volume and "changing" the size of either the STACKER volume or the uncompressed drive. ISSUES/COMMENTS: 1) The permanent removal of a STACKER volume entails the removal of all of the data inside of it. 2) At this time, it is not possible to increase the size of a STACKER volume. It is necessary to remove the volume completely, then to create another volume of a different size. This applies if the STACKER volume is too small (too much space left uncompressed when the STACKER volume was created). Stacker version 2.0 can reduce the size of the Stacker drive using SDEFRAG /G (page 94 in the User Guide). RECOMMENDED ACTIONS: 1) Permanent removal: a) back up all data on STACKER volume; b) run SREMOVE (see User's Manual, "STACKER Utilities--SREMOVE"); c) delete DEVICE=STACKER.COM... and DEVICE=SSWAP.COM.. lines in CONFIG.SYS, per instructions following SREMOVE.. 2) "Changing" the size of a STACKER volume: a) proceed as for permanent removal; b) make another free space STACKER volume using INSTALL or SCREATE, and changing only the amount of space to leave uncompressed; c) restore data to the new STACKER volume; d) edit CONFIG.SYS for new STACVOL filename.