Re: Adding dasd space

2003-08-14 Thread Ann Smith
: 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

Re: Adding dasd space

2003-08-14 Thread Dorney, Mark
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

Re: Adding dasd space

2003-08-14 Thread John Summerfield
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Richard Troth wrote: You want to use 'resize2fs'. But you've got some footwork to do before you jump into that. Is the new disk pre-blocked? If it is blocked with 4K blocks (as CMS FORMAT will give you) then you can 'dd' the old disk to the new disk, and then

RE : Adding dasd space

2003-08-14 Thread Herve Bonvin
If you need very large file system, you can also study the fcp scsi solution. -Original Message- From: Seifert, Harald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 11:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AW: Adding dasd space I'm using SLES8 and HOWTOs (especially

Re: Adding dasd space

2003-08-14 Thread Richard Troth
You want to use 'resize2fs'. But you've got some footwork to do before you jump into that. Is the new disk pre-blocked? If it is blocked with 4K blocks (as CMS FORMAT will give you) then you can 'dd' the old disk to the new disk, and then 'resize2fs' to enlarge the filesystem found

AW: Adding dasd space

2003-08-08 Thread Seifert, Harald
Coburg Phone +049 (0)9561-961787 Fax+049 (0)9561-963757 Mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Ann Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 07. August 2003 21:39 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Adding dasd space Any HOWTOS for LVM? Our

Re: Adding dasd space

2003-08-07 Thread John Summerfield
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Dorney, Mark wrote: 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

Re: Adding dasd space

2003-08-06 Thread Dorney, Mark
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 6:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Adding dasd space You want to use 'resize2fs'. But you've got some footwork to do before you jump into that. Is the new disk pre-blocked? If it is blocked with 4K blocks (as CMS FORMAT