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Old 05-27-2009
Reallocating disk space
Ok. I just built a new box from a Flash Archive and it worked great, but when I partitioned the boot disk I didn't leave any space on slice 7 to create meta devices for the mirroring. DOH! My question. I assigned 8GB for SWAP on slice 1 - can I shink or reassign space from the slice and allocate it to slice 7 for the meta devices, and if so how do I do that? Thanks in advance.
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Old 05-27-2009
You can.

Boot to single use mode ( possibly not require but depends on your memory/swap usage )
Remove the swap ( swap -d )
Resize the swap partition
Create the new partition
swap -a the swap partition and bring the server up the rest of the way.
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Old 05-27-2009
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Originally Posted by reborg
You can.

Boot to single use mode ( possibly not require but depends on your memory/swap usage )
Remove the swap ( swap -d )
Resize the swap partition
Create the new partition
swap -a the swap partition and bring the server up the rest of the way.
Ok, so I brought it down to single user mode. Did a swap -d /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s1. Went into format resized swap then added the free space to slice 6 (which is unassigned). Went to label and I get the following:

Cannot label disk when partitions are in use as described.
 
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