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Operating Systems Solaris Expand ufs Filesystems Post 302252431 by atogunde on Wednesday 29th of October 2008 11:48:23 AM

10-29-2008

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Expand ufs Filesystems

Hi All,

I need to expand a number of Filesystems on a Sun machine running Solaris 10 OS. But first I am confused;

1. Is it possible to expand a ufs filesystem such as /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s0 (that is not managed by SVM) without lossing existing data?

2. Is it possible to have such a filesystem span over more than 1 physical disks?

At present I have the following filesystems which are almost full;

/dev/dsk/c1t1d0s0 141179002 121798695 17968517 88% /mainDB
/dev/dsk/c1t4d0s0 141179002 130083737 9683475 94% /mainHOME
/dev/dsk/c1t3d0s0 141179002 139767832 0 100% /webapps

Each of these flesystems were created on 1 physical disk each taking the whole space. ( The entrie disk has been taken up by the filesystems)

I wish to expand these filesystems; I have added five new disks to the system.

How do I expand these file systems without loosing the existing data?

I thought of the following;

1. Partition the new disks and create metadevices on them, ->create 3 volumes using SVM, -> mount the new volumes on 3 different fielsystems, -> then backup or copy the existing filesystems to the newly mounted ones (how do I do that?), -> edit the /etc/vfstab, change the mount devices for the filesystems so that the system mounts the newly created metadevices on the old mount points, re-partition the old disks and make them into metadevices, use growfs to expand the the 3 filesystems on the fly.

I haven't done this before, I just some opinions please. What steps can I take for these please

Thanks

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DESCRIPTION

       fntsample  program  can	be  used  to generate font samples that show Unicode coverage of the font and are similar in appearance to Unicode
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OPTIONS

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