First, my apologies for the late summary. Second, thanks to all who replied: - Mike Demarco - Julie Peers (I had four responses from Julie, awesome....), - Hichael Morton, and, - "Mke" =============================================== >From Mike Demarco: ---------------------- In changing the layout, what I do is to vtoc the new disk with the new layout. I then newfs the partitions and mount them under /1 as they would be mounted under /. ie. /1/var will be the new /var and so on. I then use ufsdump to dump each partition to the new drive. ufsdump 0f - /dev/rdsk/c#t#d#s# | (cd /1/<matched filesystem>;ufsrestore xf -) Next you need to install the boot block (check man page under installboot) Then change your boot-device flag in your eeprom. Now go to /1/etc/vfstab and change the devices to the new drive number. Now just reboot. ( or you can skip the vfstab step and the boot-device step, init 5 the system and swap the two drives in the 1000. and boot the system. All thats left is to mirror the drives together. =============================================== >From Julie (e-mail #1) ------------------------ Have a look at my attachments (the text of the attachments follows) Your internal 18Gb boot disk should be c0t0d0 Your internal 36Gb boot disk should be c0t1d0 Please ensure you have correct slice numbers for root /var etc........ In my first attachment you will see a scriptable version of metainit. There are other ways to do this but bear in mind this is MY WAY!!! This file can be copied and pasted using vi into a file , say mdsetup , then chmod 777 mdsetup ./mdsetup Have a look at my other attachment This file too can be copied and pasted using vi into a file , say mdattach chmod 777 mdattach ./mdattach To explain things , the partition sizes must be identical. Any more info needed , contact me direct Attachment 1 (metadb setup for boot and mirror) ------------- prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s2 | fmthard -s - /dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s2 metadb -a -f c3 /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7 /dev/dsk/c0t1d0s7 metainit -f d1 1 1 c0t0d0s0 metainit d2 1 1 c0t1d0s0 metainit d3 m d1 metaroot d3 metainit -f d4 1 1 c0t0d0s1 metainit d5 1 1 c0t1d0s1 metainit d61 -m d4 metainit -f d7 1 1 c0t0d0s3 metainit d8 1 1 c0t1d0s3 metainit d9 -m d7 metainit -f d10 1 1 c0t0d0s4 metainit d11 1 1 c0t1d0s4 metainit d12 -m d10 metainit -f d13 1 1 c0t0d0s5 metainit d14 1 1 c0t1d0s5 metainit d15 -m d13 metainit -f d15 1 1 c0t0d0s6 metainit d25 1 1 c0t1d0s6 metainit d35 m d15 Attachment 2 (metattach for boot disks) -------------- metattach d3 d1 metattach d5 d4 metattach d8 d6 metattach d11 d9 metattach d12 d14 metattach d17 d15 while true do metastat |grep % sleep 180 done Julie (e-mail #2) ----------------- Hopefully I replied correctly , upon second look looks like you want to know how to resize fs once built? If so I think It depends on which raid level you are going with. I believe-but don't quote me - as I have no time now to confirm , but think its only raid 5 that this is ok for. If so check this attachment!! Infodoc 16084-Growing SDS Filesystem RAID5 was attached. Julie (e-mail #3) ----------------- and this!! Mirroring A Boot Drive Using Solstice Disksuite Featured Article on SunHelpDesk (www.sunhelpdesk.com) Author: John Richardson Date: Oct 26, 2000 Julie (e-mail #4) ----------------- Hello for the last time Just in case I did go off on one!!! There was a summary attached from sun-managers@ra.mcs.anl.gov (Sun-Managers) , the subject being: Summary: Growing Raid (Disk Suite). I have attached a similar scenario with Q+A's for you. =============================================== Hichael Morton ---------------- docs.sun.com has the disksuite documentation. you will need to recreate the boot drive the way you want it. once this is completed, the disksuite manual/guide/documentation will give you options and instructions. also, you will need to load disksuite on your blade1000. Mike's reply was similar to Hichael's. Thanks again everyone. If anyone would like copies of the attachments, they can contact me directly. Dave -----Original Message----- From: Dave Warchol [mailto:Warchol@harthosp.org] Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 7:51 AM To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org Subject: Mirroring Good morning: SunBlade 1000 with an 18GB drive running Solaris 8. I've purchased and installed a second drive, 36GB. I would like to end up with a mirrored system disk using Disksuite, but would like to use the opportunity to change the disk layout/filesystems as well. Can someone please provide detailed procedure(s) for doing this. Thanks Dave _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Fri Dec 6 11:04:16 2002
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