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Originally Posted by
pinga123
I disagree with you as if the partition is formatted with LVM then you might increase the size of root partition.
Please read about LVM to increase the root partition(This will only work if the partition were formatted using LVM )
and i disagree with you. if a drive is fully used (and we don't know the drive layout) you can't resize a partion, even if you use some sort of volumemanagement (unless you shrink another partition).
everything is said allready:
1. we need the drivelayout (vtoc -> "prtvtoc /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s2)
2. is some kind of volumemanagement used?
3. from a guess i think we are talking about a solaris 6 system; so lots of the modern tools are missing (liveupgrade; flasharchive)
4. growing and shrinking filesystems is always a problematic thing to do; one error during the procedure and your data might be lost!
so, the working conclusion with an external /opt slice is a good solution in this case, isn't it?
if there is a chance to use a second drive (maybe a bigger one) you can saftly do a ufsdump/ufsrestore for every slice on the old disk to the knew one while bootet from cd/net. this is, in my opinion, the safest solution for this kind of problem...