I received many replies the most consise came from:
Davis_at_tessco.com "Davis, Alan"
Everything worked fine, btw.
If you resize the root while booted from the install CD you don't have to
build another swap somewhere else first.
1. backup all partitions on root disk that will be affected
2. back them all up again on a second tape
3. restore the last file from each dump on each tape to /tmp to verify that
the backups are good
4. halt system
5. boot from CD
6. create devices
7. disklabel -e
8. disklabel -r to verify changes
9. if advfs: mkfdmn/mkfset, if ufs: newfs (root only)
10. mount root on /mnt
11. restore root
12. halt system
13. boot to new root
14. make filesystems for other partitions affected
15. restore rest of partitions
16. reboot and test
-----Original Message-----
From: Karen Byrd [mailto:BYRD_at_mscf.med.upenn.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 1:25 PM
To: tru64-unix-managers_at_ornl.gov
Subject: increasing the root partition
I have had to re-size the disk partition used for root in the
past. So I know that procedure. However this time the b
partition on this disk is used for swap(I have two files for
paging/swapping)
What I propose to do, very briefly stated, is create another swap/page file
on another disk, backup root, re-size root, restore root.
Am I correct in my assumptions?
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Received on Fri Sep 15 2000 - 11:13:51 NZST