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# 1  
Old 03-27-2016
Increase the / partition
Hi all

im new to solaris and i got the task to increase the size of the / partition.
its solaris 9 update6 running in a vmware esxi. i already added space on the VM, when im trying the "growfs" command im gettings error. see attached picture:

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thanks for helping...
# 2  
Old 03-27-2016
According to the man page you need to use the raw device (so the corresponding raw device would be/dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0)

But the man page for growfs also says:
Code:
LIMITATIONS
       Only  UFS file systems (either mounted or unmounted) can be expanded using the growfs com-
       mand. Once a file system is expanded, it cannot be decreased in size. The following condi-
       tions  prevent  you from expanding file systems: When acct is activated and the accounting
       file is on the target device. When C2 security is activated and the logging file is on the
       target  file  system.  When there is a local swap file in the target file system. When the
       file system is root (/), /usr, or swap.

Last edited by Scrutinizer; 03-27-2016 at 11:58 AM..
# 3  
Old 03-27-2016
Growing / is doable, you just need to boot to a different boot media, for example an Solaris installation CD.

The main issue is your first need to repartition and relabel your disk for the slice that contain the root file system to have its size increased. Growing the whole disk is not enough.
# 4  
Old 03-28-2016
this is the output im getting after adding the "r" im not getting back the prompt, i waited more than 15 hours.
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---------- Post updated at 03:10 AM ---------- Previous update was at 01:30 AM ----------

Hi jlliagre
"repartition and relabel your disk for the slice that contain the root file system to have its size increased"
how do i do that?

---------- Post updated at 03:10 AM ---------- Previous update was at 03:10 AM ----------

Hi jlliagre
"repartition and relabel your disk for the slice that contain the root file system to have its size increased"
how do i do that?
# 5  
Old 03-28-2016
There is no point "growing" a file system located on a slice that has its size unchanged.

Before attempting to enlarge its slice, you first need to know how the slices and partitions are laid out on your disk. Post these commands output:

Code:
fdisk -G /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0p0

echo 6 | fdisk /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0p0

fdisk -v -W - /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0p0

prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s2

# 6  
Old 03-28-2016
the last picture is the result of the "echo" command.
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