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Old 10-08-2006
Error [help] create partition for /data

hi experts,

i had installed and do mirroring with sun solaris 8 v890 sparc, i had forget to make a partition for directory /data, i have 6 hard drive with disk0 mirror disk1(for root,var,opt,etc) ,disk2 mirror disk3(for /data2) and disk4 mirror disk5(for /data3), how to make a new partition for /data or change /data2 to /data ? because the /data directory need to keep log file from application, below is my harddisk and partition condition :

# df -k
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/md/dsk/d30 8258285 863634 7312069 11% /
/proc 0 0 0 0% /proc
fd 0 0 0 0% /dev/fd
mnttab 0 0 0 0% /etc/mnttab
/dev/md/dsk/d35 37302884 9259 36920597 1% /var
swap 60511200 16 60511184 1% /var/run
swap 60511200 16 60511184 1% /tmp
/dev/md/dsk/d39 141065220 9 139654559 1% /data3
/dev/md/dsk/d38 141065220 9 139654559 1% /data2
/dev/md/dsk/d37 49580320 26 49084491 1% /export/home


# metastat
d30: Mirror
Submirror 0: d10
State: Okay
Submirror 1: d20
State: Okay
Pass: 1
Read option: roundrobin (default)
Write option: parallel (default)
Size: 16770048 blocks

d10: Submirror of d30
State: Okay
Size: 16770048 blocks
Stripe 0:
Device Start Block Dbase State Hot Spare
c1t0d0s0 0 No Okay


d20: Submirror of d30
State: Okay
Size: 16790400 blocks
Stripe 0:
Device Start Block Dbase State Hot Spare
c1t1d0s0 0 No Okay


d31: Mirror
Submirror 0: d11
State: Okay
Submirror 1: d21
State: Okay
Pass: 1
Read option: roundrobin (default)
Write option: parallel (default)
Size: 8405376 blocks

d11: Submirror of d31
State: Okay
Size: 8405376 blocks
Stripe 0:
Device Start Block Dbase State Hot Spare
c1t0d0s1 0 No Okay


d21: Submirror of d31
State: Okay
Size: 8405376 blocks
Stripe 0:
Device Start Block Dbase State Hot Spare
c1t1d0s1 0 No Okay


d35: Mirror
Submirror 0: d15
State: Okay
Submirror 1: d25
State: Okay
Pass: 1
Read option: roundrobin (default)
Write option: parallel (default)
Size: 75750144 blocks

d15: Submirror of d35
State: Okay
Size: 75750144 blocks
Stripe 0:
Device Start Block Dbase State Hot Spare
c1t0d0s5 0 No Okay


d25: Submirror of d35
State: Okay
Size: 75750144 blocks
Stripe 0:
Device Start Block Dbase State Hot Spare
c1t1d0s5 0 No Okay


d36: Mirror
Submirror 0: d16
State: Okay
Submirror 1: d26
State: Okay
Pass: 1
Read option: roundrobin (default)
Write option: parallel (default)
Size: 42576384 blocks

d16: Submirror of d36
State: Okay
Size: 42576384 blocks
Stripe 0:
Device Start Block Dbase State Hot Spare
c1t0d0s6 0 No Okay


d26: Submirror of d36
State: Okay
Size: 42576384 blocks
Stripe 0:
Device Start Block Dbase State Hot Spare
c1t1d0s6 0 No Okay


d37: Mirror
Submirror 0: d17
State: Okay
Submirror 1: d27
State: Okay
Pass: 1
Read option: roundrobin (default)
Write option: parallel (default)
Size: 100681344 blocks

d17: Submirror of d37
State: Okay
Size: 100681344 blocks
Stripe 0:
Device Start Block Dbase State Hot Spare
c1t0d0s7 0 No Okay


d27: Submirror of d37
State: Okay
Size: 100681344 blocks
Stripe 0:
Device Start Block Dbase State Hot Spare
c1t1d0s7 0 No Okay


d38: Mirror
Submirror 0: d18
State: Okay
Submirror 1: d28
State: Okay
Pass: 1
Read option: roundrobin (default)
Write option: parallel (default)
Size: 286474752 blocks

d18: Submirror of d38
State: Okay
Size: 286474752 blocks
Stripe 0:
Device Start Block Dbase State Hot Spare
c1t2d0s0 0 No Okay


d28: Submirror of d38
State: Okay
Size: 286474752 blocks
Stripe 0:
Device Start Block Dbase State Hot Spare
c1t3d0s0 0 No Okay


d39: Mirror
Submirror 0: d19
State: Okay
Submirror 1: d29
State: Okay
Pass: 1
Read option: roundrobin (default)
Write option: parallel (default)
Size: 286474752 blocks

d19: Submirror of d39
State: Okay
Size: 286474752 blocks
Stripe 0:
Device Start Block Dbase State Hot Spare
c1t4d0s0 0 No Okay


d29: Submirror of d39
State: Okay
Size: 286474752 blocks
Stripe 0:
Device Start Block Dbase State Hot Spare
c1t5d0s0 0 No Okay



# ls
bin data3 etc kernel mnt platform tmp vol
cdrom dev export lib net proc usr xfn
data2 devices home lost+found opt sbin var

very need helpppp Smilie

please advice

thank you for you attention



Best Regards,

wu
# 2  
Old 10-08-2006
Quote:
how to make a new partition for /data or change /data2 to /data ?
The easiest and fastest solution IF there is nothing yet on /data2 is to turn it into /data.

# umount /data2
Next step needed if /data directory (read mount point) does not exist.
# mkdir /data
# cp /etc/vfstab /etc/vfstab.10082006
# vi /etc/vfstab
Change /data2 to /data and save file
# mount /data
Done. Unmount /data2, make sure /data mount point is available, copy /etc/vfstab to file name of your choice (just in case), change /etc/vfstab to have d38 mount as /data instead of /data2, save changes, and mount /data.
# 3  
Old 10-09-2006
Quote:
Originally Posted by RTM
The easiest and fastest solution IF there is nothing yet on /data2 is to turn it into /data.

# umount /data2
Next step needed if /data directory (read mount point) does not exist.
# mkdir /data
# cp /etc/vfstab /etc/vfstab.10082006
# vi /etc/vfstab
Change /data2 to /data and save file
# mount /data
Done. Unmount /data2, make sure /data mount point is available, copy /etc/vfstab to file name of your choice (just in case), change /etc/vfstab to have d38 mount as /data instead of /data2, save changes, and mount /data.

hi RTM,

Thank you for your advice

Best Regards,

wu
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