Thank you. Like I said, it's still a proof of concept, so things were done in a hurry for time sake. Now that I've gone through CTC & OSA connections and hipersockets and have people actually starting to install software (DB2 connect), I'm hitting these problems and now's the time to consider all the other stuff that goes along with this, cloning, maintenance, etc. I've read the Redbook on the cloning with the bind mounts and all and decided at that time to review it again later. I guess later is now. The other instance is for WebSphere and I understand he's going to need a whole lot more space.
BTW this list was instrumental in getting me as far as I've gotten, it's just been limited mostly to the archives up to this point. Thanks to all the contributors. Mark Dorney -----Original Message----- From: Post, Mark K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 6:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Adding dasd space Mark, Do you really need/want one huge root partition? It might be good practice to start creating separate file systems. I'm assuming you ran out of space in /usr (most people do at least a few times). You could easily add /dev/dasdc to your system, create a partition on /dev/dasdc1, copy the contents of /usr to it, and mount it on your system. Since 210MB is still fairly small for everything else, you might want to create separate partitions for /var and /tmp as well. For instructions on how to do this, see http://linuxvm.org/Info/HOWTOS/movefs.html Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Dorney, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 6:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Adding dasd space I need more space. We had the idea that we'd take down the instance, give it a larger minidisk and then use VM to copy the existing partition to the larger minidisk. Although this sounded like the easiest way to accomplish this, I don't think it'll work now that we've done it. It IPLs ok and when I go into YAST in the "partitioner" area I see the larger DASD, however, the partition has not changed (obviously). I guess the thinking (or lack thereof) was that this would extra space would magically appear. However, now I realize that isn't the case and to get a partition on DASDC I'm going to need to format it to get the extra space then partition it, is this correct? I suspect I'll be told about LVM but right now this is just a proof of concept and it didn't seem worth the effort to implement LVM for a few instances. I think what I have to do is add a minidisk the size I want, format it, partition it, then copy everything over there and change the mount points, does this sound along the right lines? Thanks Device �Id � Size � F �Type � Mount �RAID �LVM Group /dev/dasdb � (0192)� 210.9 MB� �S390 Disk � � � /dev/dasdb1� � 210.2 MB� �S390 DASD�swap � � /dev/dasdc � (0193)� 2.0 GB� �S390 Disk � � � /dev/dasdc1� � 1.7 GB� �S390 DASD�/ � � Mark Dorney (608)264-6694
