Solstice Disksuite 4.2 1

[teddy74]

Hi ALL !

I am new to solaris ,I have got a Sunsparc System running SunOS 5.6. Untill now we did not have Solstice Disksuite and we were using the normal solaris ufs filesystem with a single internal hardisk.Now i have added one more internal harddisk because the filesystems on the first harddisk r running out of disk space. I have installed Solstice Disksuite 4.2 (as this would help me to increase the filesystem size on the fly) and i am planning to create metadevices from the slices on the new harddisk , now my question is can i get the old filesystems (on the first disk) also into solstice disksuite or should i reinstall solaris for this ? I am pretty stuck with this , can somebody guide me this and also on how to go about creating metadevices in solstice disksuite , my primary requirement is that i should be able to increase the filesystem size on the fly using solstice disksuite 4.2 ,incase it gets filled up.
pls help..thanks for any help
rajesh
:-( rajeshrcmc@hotmail.com
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[mccartyd]

Create new mount points for the file systems you want to move off the orig disk as <mount-point>-old and edit the /etc/vfstab to corespond on what to mount to these points. Reboot the machine and make sure the old file systems are mounted as desired. Then create new metadevices (I'm not sure in DS how to do that - I'm a Veritas person) making their mount point the original one. Then use &quot;cd /<mount-point>-old; tar -C /<mount-point> cvf - | tar -xvf - &quot; to move the files to the new directory. Umount the <mount-point>-old and newfs it to blow away the files and directories. Keep it around for a while unmounted to make sure you are okay.

As always, keep a CD handy to boot off from if things get hairy.