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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers [SOLVED] Help with new disk but don't know how to add Post 302753447 by samnyc on Tuesday 8th of January 2013 04:47:03 PM
Old 01-08-2013
[SOLVED] Help with new disk but don't know how to add

Hi,

This Linux server is a VM, on the VMware, I added new disk for this system. I was not able to see the new disk. I did try the scan command but didn't work. I then rebooted the system. Now when I do

Code:
 
fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 161.0 GB, 161061273600 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19581 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1          13      104391   83  Linux
/dev/sda2              14         268     2048287+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3             269       19581   155131672+  83  Linux

On the Vmware, I added another disk for 150 Gig.

Here is the output from df -h

Code:
 
df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3             144G  135G  1.9G  99% /
/dev/sda1              99M   26M   68M  28% /boot
tmpfs                 942M     0  942M   0% /dev/shm

where is my new disk? how do I add that.

---------- Post updated at 04:47 PM ---------- Previous update was at 04:25 PM ----------

I was able to add the new...

Code:
 
fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 161.0 GB, 161061273600 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19581 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1          13      104391   83  Linux
/dev/sda2              14         268     2048287+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3             269       19581   155131672+  83  Linux
Disk /dev/sdb: 161.0 GB, 161061273600 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19581 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb4               1       19581   157284351    5  Extended

but when I do mkfs, I get error message. Any idea?

Code:
 
mkfs ext3 /dev/sdb4
mke2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006)
mkfs.ext2: invalid blocks count - /dev/sdb4

 

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volrootmir(8)						      System Manager's Manual						     volrootmir(8)

NAME
volrootmir - Mirror areas necessary for booting to a new disk SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/volrootmir [-a] [nconfig=count] target_disk [swap=target_partition] OPTIONS
Specifies that all volumes on the system disk be mirrored, not just the root and swap volumes, rootvol and swapvol. DESCRIPTION
The volrootmir script causes a mirror copy of areas of the root disk involved in booting to be made on the specified target disk. When used without the -a option, volrootmir adds mirrors of the root and swap volumes and allocates them on the new disk. In addition, all disk regions required for booting are set up and partitions for the new volume mirrors are created. When used with the -a option, volrootmir mirrors all in-use partitions on the system disk. To mirror a swap volume that is on a separate disk from the root volume, the swap attribute must be used to specify a separate target for the swap mirror. The target disk(s) must be at least as large as the sum of the sizes of rootvol and swapvol. Also, the physical disk should not have any disk partition in use. This script can be called from the voldiskadm menus by choosing the Mirror volumes on a disk operation. ATTRIBUTES
Specifies the number of log copies and copies of the configuration database, for example, nconfig=2. Specifies that the swap volume, swapvol, be mirrored on a separate disk, as specified by target_partition. EXAMPLES
The following command mirrors the rootvol and swapvol volumes onto the target disk, dsk3. This command will fail if swapvol is on a differ- ent disk from rootvol. # volrootmir dsk3 The following command mirrors rootvol, swapvol, and any other volumes on the root disk onto the target disk, dsk3. This command will fail if swapvol is on a different disk from rootvol. # volrootmir -a dsk3 The following command mirrors rootvol on disk dsk3, swapvol onto partition dsk7d, and any other volumes on the root disk onto disk dsk3. This command will fail if swapvol is on the same disk as rootvol. # volrootmir -a dsk3 swap=dsk7d The following command mirrors rootvol onto disk dsk3 and swapvol onto partition dsk7d. This command will fail if swapvol is on the same disk as rootvol. # volrootmir dsk3 swap=dsk7d SEE ALSO
volintro(8), voldiskadm(8) volrootmir(8)
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