[cowens]

Okay I got it to work.  First I want to thank all that repied to my plea for help.

The problem was want it was. Not enough space to restore AND create the filesystems. Thats the big thing. Not the space required to restore the data but the space required to create the filesystems. O ya one more thing know the size of the disk you are restoring too. I thought the disk was a 18g drive when in fact it was a 8g drive. Once I replace this drive with the 18g thing went as I had expected the first time.

Because this was a test I was able to go to the system I was trying to restore and look at all the filesystems created under rootvg

#lsvg -l rootvg

I then add up all the space for each filesytem excluding the user filesystems. I added up the boot, paging, jfslog, /, /usr, ......., sysdump. Once done it came out to about 14g required. well below the 18g drive I was restoring to .

Now because I excluded the user filesystems I had to restore the image.data file from the mksysb edit it and remove the filesystem information for these filesystems.