Image a 4gb Drive to a 20gb Drive

[comtec17]

Hello,
I am wanting to replace my drive without having to install Veritas VM/FS. I want to copy or image the drive to the new 20gb drive. Has anyone done this? What is the process or software I could use? The reason for doing this is that my / is 100% full and I need to extend my Filesystem.

Thank in advance!

 

[jmiturbe]

Hello,

You can use ufsdump to backup your filesystems (/ and /usr must be umounted, so you'll have to boot from cdrom), create them bigger on the new drive (or a combination of the two drives, with or without VM. Remember that Solaris Volume Manager on Solaris 9 or disk suite on earlier releases are free), and restore the backup with ufsrestore.

Dou you have a tape drive? If not you can use the disk drive as the destination space, but probably you'll need a partition on the second drive for this purpose, and maybe you don't want to.

There are other possibilities for copying drives like dd, etc... but this is what Sun recommends when manipulating drives.

Bye,

jmiturbe

 

[Annihilannic]

Hmm... could be fiddly.

Is your root disk encapsulated? What type of filesystems does it have on it, VXFS or UFS? Annihilannic.

 

[comtec17]

My filesystem is UFS. I have not disksuite or Volume Manager software installed except what is loaded by default on Solaris 8.

Would Norton Ghost work with this?

 

[lfoata]

I dont believe Norton will work with it. Do not use DD or your new drive will have only 4GBs available.
Use ufsdump and ufsrestore. If you are trying to copy the boot disk, after copying the file systems do a installboot. Too bad I.T. is not cash business

Luc Foata
Unix sysadmin, Oracle DBA