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07-10-2013

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Partition advice

Hi,

I have a number of RHEL servers, they are all identical in build and all are encountering disk space issues very frequently. I am hoping you can help me answer a few questions:

1. The servers have 40GB (:O) SWAP Space, I am hoping to reduce this to 10GB at most and then re-use the other 30GB. What is the best way to do this?

2. After doing the above, do I HAVE to create a new partition, or can I extend the existing partitions (I know I can use parted to do this but does it only work for the final partition)?

3. As the servers are virtual I can allocate more disk, I assume this is closely related to question 2- if I can use this to extend existing partitions I will, otherwise I will need to create extra partitions?

I have read quite a few articles around this, mainly from the RHEL knowledge-base and as I have never done this sort of thing before I was hoping for some advice/clarification.

Thanks.

mcclunyboy

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pwrkap_aggregate

pwrkap_aggregate(8)						   User Manuals 					       pwrkap_aggregate(8)

NAME

       pwrkap_aggregate - Present a large number of pwrkap servers as if they were one

SYNOPSIS

       pwrkap_aggregate config_file

DESCRIPTION

       pwrkap_aggregate  is  a	daemon that connects to a multitude of pwrkap servers and power control domains, and presents them as if they were
       one server with a smaller number of domains.  By aggregating pwrkap server instances, it is possible to monitor many thousands  of  servers
       without	overworking the command console.  It is also possible to give identical class designations to a group of pwrkap servers and manage
       them as an aggregate.

OPTIONS

       config_file
	      Text file mapping pwrkap servers to aggregated domains.  See pwrkap_aggregate(5) for information about the config file format.

AUTHOR

       Darrick J. Wong <djwong at us dot ibm dot com>

SEE ALSO

       pwrkap_gtk(1), pwrkap_cli(1), pwrkap_aggregate(5), pwrkap_main(8)

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