I really like this list, I can get good solutions back within a few minutes.
I had to manually edit the disklabel, this is done with the disklabel
program. This lets you hand tune the values for the disk partitions.
Using the command '/sbin/disklable -e /dev/rrz0c' , here's what I had
origianlly:
>8 partitions:
># size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] #
>NOTE: values not exact
> a: 1048576 0 AdvFS #
>(Cyl. 0 - 1040*)
> b: 8192000 1048576 swap #
>(Cyl. 1040*- 9167*)
> c: 39102336 0 unused 0 0 #
>(Cyl. 0 - 38791)
> d: 0 0 unused 0 0 #
>(Cyl. 0 - -1)
> e: 0 0 unused 0 0 #
>(Cyl. 0 - -1)
> f: 0 0 unused 0 0 #
>(Cyl. 0 - -1)
> g: 8192000 9261001 AdvFS #
>(Cyl. 9187*- 17314*)
> h: 31238016 7864320 unused 0 0 #
>(Cyl. 7801*- 38791)
You'll notice that the h partition Cyl actually begins somewhere in
the B partition. I then changed h's begining cylinder to 17315.
Figuring out the size and the offset was a little tricker and I
probably didn't get the right numbers. Since the a,b, & g partitions
were marked as in use the disklabel program would not let me (or at
least I didn't go around the warning signs) overlap these partitions,
it also complained when I made the h partition too large and it
extended beyond the size of the disk.
Anyway after a nervous reboot I was able to get into the diskconfig
GUI. (I'm a sucker for a gui). The H partition is then available.
Though it took up only a small fraction of the available space. A
few clicks later I had a new h partition which used up all of the
remaining space on the HD.
Repeating the disklabel command, the new label has the following
description for the H partition:
h: 21649335 17453001 AdvFS #
(Cyl. 17314*- 38791)
thanks for the help,
James
>-----Original Message-----
>From: James Hammett [<mailto:james_at_che.utexas.edu>mailto:james_at_che.utexas.edu]
>Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 11:11 AM
>To: tru64-unix-managers_at_ornl.gov
>Subject: Frustrating, can't move the H partition
>
>
>I just got our license for the ADVFS utilities and when I attempted
>to add the H partition to the usr_domain, I discovered it overlapped
>the G partition.
>
>I then went into diskconfig and when I try activating the H partition
>I get an alert indicating that the H partition overlaps the G
>paritition and IT CAN NOT BE CORRECTED. (My emphasis added). This
>is kinda annoying since the G partition stops several gigabytes
>before the end of the disk.
>
>Here's what the partition table looks like:
> Begin End
>A: <Not important>
>B: < SWAP, Not important>
>G: 4521 8521
>H: 3840 14092
>
>Without losing the G partition (and hence my user_domain), how can I
>resize the H partition so that it begins at 8522?
>
>thanks,
>James
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