So here's the deal. I have an 18GB HD in production and have a new 18GB drive to partition and then mirror. the slices on my production HD are too small so I need to resize them. ( I am really new to Solaris excuse my lack of knowledge)
So my plan is:
1. Partition new HD with more efficient space management.
(Using same slice order)
2. copy all data original to new (make the new HD bootable)
3. make sure both HD are same except partition size
4. repartion old HD and resize.
5. Mirror drives
Question: Can I do this with minimal downtime for Server?
Here are the commands I have, I am missing some but don't know what.
go through the format with new disk installed. leaving production in place. partition new disk,
newfs /dev/rdsk/c?t?d?s? for all, then do I have to mount each slice when I do a
ufsdump 0f - /dev/rdsk/... | usf restore rf -
after this I am lost. My main concern is that I create the new disk to be an exact copy of the original (except partition size)
Thanks!
So my plan is:
1. Partition new HD with more efficient space management.
(Using same slice order)
2. copy all data original to new (make the new HD bootable)
3. make sure both HD are same except partition size
4. repartion old HD and resize.
5. Mirror drives
Question: Can I do this with minimal downtime for Server?
Here are the commands I have, I am missing some but don't know what.
go through the format with new disk installed. leaving production in place. partition new disk,
newfs /dev/rdsk/c?t?d?s? for all, then do I have to mount each slice when I do a
ufsdump 0f - /dev/rdsk/... | usf restore rf -
after this I am lost. My main concern is that I create the new disk to be an exact copy of the original (except partition size)
Thanks!