1. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

I want to resize my filesystem partitions. Reason is that I have 11GB of disk space unused by Unix which divvy reveals. Is there a way I could resize my filesystems without doing a reinstallation. The secondary problem is that the boot image is too large for a diskette (5MB). I'm running SCO... (10 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

is there anything such as "resizing file for optimal disk usage" if so, whats it about? (4 Replies)

3. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi, Is there are any special preocedure for extending veritas mirror-stripe volume? In my case , volume lay out looks as below v test - ENABLED ACTIVE 419430400 SELECT - fsgen pl test-01 test ENABLED ACTIVE 419454720 STRIPE 3/128 RW sd... (0 Replies)

4. Filesystems, Disks and Memory

Hi First post :o I have recently used Acronis (Backup software for data backup and disaster recovery in Windows and Linux - Acronis) to create identical systems that I need to build. Everything works OK, but one of the machine has a bigger harddisk (250G) than the one I used to create the... (2 Replies)

5. Solaris

I've looked a little but haven't found a solid answer, assuming there is one. What's better, hardware mirroring or ZFS mirroring? Common practice for us was to use the raid controllers on the Sun x86 servers. Now we've been using ZFS mirroring since U6. Any performance difference? Any other... (3 Replies)

6. Solaris

Hi , I am new to SVM .when i try to learn RAID 1 , first they are creating two RAID 0 strips through metainit d51 1 1 c0t0d0s2 metainit d52 1 1 c1t0d0s2 In the next step metainit d50 -m d51 d50: Mirror is setup next step is metaattach d50 d52 d50 : submirror d52 is... (7 Replies)

7. Solaris

I'm used to using AIX but a new box running Solaris I need a little help with. The disk are presented from a SAN, the disk needing to change is presented as 148GBs drive which was allocated to a file system as the same. I need to change that without losing any data. I know I can change the disk... (7 Replies)

8. HP-UX

Hello, I'm new to HP-UX and I'm not sure about some concepts related to resizing fs's under this OS. First of all I'm only asking about resizing ONLINE, it means, without having to umount the fs nor rebooting, etc. Q1. I've read that in order to resize a fs online there are 2 requirements:... (3 Replies)

9. HP-UX

what is the difference between DRD and Root Mirror Disk using LVM mirror ? (3 Replies)