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Operating Systems Solaris Convert from raw disk to solaris volume manager disk Post 302625689 by fretagi on Wednesday 18th of April 2012 06:18:53 AM

04-18-2012

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Convert from raw disk to solaris volume manager disk

I have a solaris 10 system configured using NetApp as its storage, and the file systems are already configured as you can see from the example below:

Code:

  root@moneta # df -h
  Filesystem             size   used  avail capacity  Mounted on
  /dev/md/dsk/d0         9.8G   513M   9.3G     6%    /
  /devices                 0K     0K     0K     0%    /devices
  ctfs                     0K     0K     0K     0%    /system/contract
  proc                     0K     0K     0K     0%    /proc
  mnttab                   0K     0K     0K     0%    /etc/mnttab
  swap                    21G   1.7M    21G     1%    /etc/svc/volatile
  objfs                    0K     0K     0K     0%    /system/object
  sharefs                  0K     0K     0K     0%    /etc/dfs/sharetab
  /dev/md/dsk/d6         9.8G   4.0G   5.7G    42%    /usr
  fd                       0K     0K     0K     0%    /dev/fd
  /dev/md/dsk/d1         9.8G   3.5G   6.2G    36%    /var
  swap                    21G   208K    21G     1%    /tmp
  swap                    21G    96K    21G     1%    /var/run
  /dev/dsk/c4t60A98000646F6172636F677178564852d0s0
                         197G   100G    95G    52%    /ora_moneta_oraarch
  /dev/md/dsk/d30        550G    52G   493G    10%    /local_backup
  /dev/dsk/c4t60A98000646F6172636F677231526977d0s0
                          43G   753M    42G     2%    /moneta_polled01
  /dev/dsk/c4t60A98000646F6172636F677234564655d0s0
                          64G    13G    51G    21%    /moneta_parsed01
  /dev/dsk/c4t60A98000646F6172636F67724B4C2D6Dd0s6
                         689G   548G   134G    81%    /moneta_collected02
  /dev/dsk/c4t60A98000646F6172636F677231507347d0s0
                          64G    53G    10G    84%    /moneta_temp01
  /dev/md/dsk/d5         9.8G    69M   9.7G     1%    /opt
  /dev/dsk/c4t60A98000646F6172636F677253506852d0s0
                         584G   513G    65G    89%    /ora_data01
  /dev/md/dsk/d4         192G   151G    39G    80%    /internaldisk1
  /dev/dsk/c4t60A98000646F6172636F67717542506Ad0s0
                         5.9G   2.4G   3.5G    41%    /moneta_home
  /dev/dsk/c4t60A98000646F6172636F67724D6B7548d0s6
                         591G   462G   122G    80%    /moneta_collected03
  /dev/dsk/c4t60A98000646F6172636F677255764435d0s0
  583G   505G    72G    88%    /ora_data04
  /dev/dsk/c4t60A98000646F6172636F677176744B35d0s0
  20G   9.8G   9.7G    51%    /oracle
  /dev/dsk/c4t60A98000646F6172636F6772557A4931d0s0
  584G   522G    56G    91%    /ora_data03
  /dev/dsk/c4t60A98000646F6172636F6772554A706Dd0s0
  584G   521G    57G    91%    /ora_data02

As you can some of these file systems have exceed the 90% mark, so we want to extend them. From my research I need to convert the �/dev/dsk/c4t60A98000646F6172636F6772554A706Dd0s0� into �/dev/dsk/md/d60� as an example, which is �solaris volume manager� nomenclature. Then I can use growfs -m to resize the partition.
But I need first to convert those disks into solaris volume manager disks. Please can you give me the steps to do that?
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