I received a great number of responses on this and everyone agreed that
although the documentation does not say that the vdump should be done in
single user mode it would certainly be the prudent thing to do. I did the
conversion last night without incident. The new disk is on line and my
space problem is gone. Thanks to everyone who took the time to reply.
Bill
>I am running short of space on my /usr file system due to the large volume
>of mail on this particular server.
>
>Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
>/dev/rz8a 63167 50601 6249 89% /
>/proc 0 0 0 100% /proc
>/dev/rz8g 1016022 822877 91542 90% /usr
>/dev/rz8h 532495 94014 385231 20% /usr/local
>
>
>To correct this problem I have installed a 4.3G hard drive and plan to
>convert the /usr file system on rz8g to an advfs file system the new disk
>(rz10). I plan to use the entire disk for the /usr file system. This
will
>give me plenty of space for mail.
>
>My question concerns the conversion procedure documented in the DEC System
>Admin manual. Step 5 on page 8-22 states:
>
>While there is no activity on the system, copy the contents of the UFS
file
>system to the AdvFS file system. (using the following command)
>
># vdump -0f - -D . | vrestore -xf - -D /usr.advfs
>
>Nowhere in the instructions does it say to go to single user mode but I
>would normally do a 0 level vdump in single user mode and I know of no
>other way to insure that there is no activity on the system. Am I correct
>in my thinking that I need to be in single user mode while performing this
>step?
Bill Bergman
Westinghouse Communications
(412) 247-6206
wrb_at_wcsmail.com
Received on Wed Apr 09 1997 - 15:14:33 NZST