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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Shrink my partition to new disk Post 302461160 by amol28kulkarni on Friday 8th of October 2010 04:54:47 PM
Old 10-08-2010
Shrink my partition to new disk

I want to backup my partitions by shrinking it my issue is like
I want to create a new disk copy from only the used blocks I my current image.
How would I redirect the output of resize2fs to new disk and dd the current
partition so that I can boot my new image without issues and also without touching my current image and copying over of only the required data.

I understand that I can copy the entire disk and then resize the cloned disk but this seems inefficient as not all my disk is being used.
I dont want to hinder the current working disk manipulations on this should be avoided as I dont have any other backup.

So suppose I have a 2TB disk of which only 100GB is being used I need only these 100GB in the new disk. Is there any way of copying the used blocks in the existing filesystem to the new filesystem ?

Any pointer or clear ideas would be really useful. I appreciate this if I get some list of commands or steps and doing this without any software
 

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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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