I have encountered my first problem of the year at work with one of our NMS servers. We would like to migrate Cisco Works to Solaris, as it is currently running on NT. The NMS is already running OpenView NNM 6.2 (primary NMS program). Anyhow the /var slice is only 6 mb and is almost full, as this is where OpenView NNM keeps it's database files. Cisco Works requires that 5 mb on /var at least be free in order for installation. So, does anyone have a possible work-around for this scenario? There is plenty of free space on the /usr and /home slices which could accomodate the data.

Thanks in advance.

Hi,

You cannot "resize" a slice, but you can grow a filesystem ( it's not possible to shrink it again ! )... I assume that you don't have any volume manager installed... Advice: backup, backup, backup !

Is you have unallocated space beyond the slice you're extending, use /usr/lib/fs/ufs/mkfs -G -M /mountpoint /dev/rdsk/cxtxdxsx size .

Otherwise you can do it more safely this way:
umount filesystem ( if cannot be umounted, start in single user mode, using the CD ), backup the filesystem, resize the slice, create new filesystem, restore the backup onto this new filesystem, update /etc/vfstab, reboot...

Did i mention to backup ?... :-)

Good luck !

Thank you for your input. I really didn't think that we would have a chance to "resize" the slice per se and I really wanted some confirmation. I will run the idea by others involved on the project to see if it is something they would be willing to try. Thanks again.