File system size

[ronnetp]

Hi, I am doing my first steps with solaris,
and I have been assigned to change the size of
a file system.

Any help is very appreciated.

Thanks

 

[KenCunningham]

Hi. To increase or decrease the size? Using what - Veritas, Disk Suite? More info. please.

 

[ronnetp]

Thanks, Ken that is the question, how or with what tool can I do it.

I need to decrease one Filesystem and Increase another.

Remember, I have no solaris background.

I am starting to read disk suite, Can I do it wit it?

 

[tuka]

Disksuite WILL not allow file system size shrinking.
you can grow concated metadevice filesystem (disksuite)

You can backup the filesystem(s) to tape or to another disk
and then resize the original filesystem' size, afterward
restore the data to resized filesystem.

 

[ronnetp]

Yeah but how do I resize it?

 

[mikeclark]

You can use format to re-partitian the disks.

 

[daFranze]

guys do not mix up the size of slices/metadevices/... and the size of the filesystem!

just like Ken says, we need more info, please run
mount
metastat -p # if not installed this may cause an error
vxprint -ht # dito
which FS do you want to change?



Regards
-- Franz
Sorry I'm not a native spaeker, I'm from Munich, Germany - "Home of the Whopper", oh no, "Home of the Oktoberfest" ;-)
Solaris System Manager; I used to work for Sun Microsystems Support (EMEA) for 5 years