Relabeling the partions will not destroy exisiting partitions on the same
disk.
You will need to make sure that the system isn't actually using it as swap.
- Check the fstab and the partition(s) pointed to by the sysconfig file
(5.x)
or by /sbin/swapdefault
- You will need to reboot to clear the swap usage.
Once you've done that, just use "mkfdmn" to make the file domain, or
if you want to add the space to an existing volume, "addvol", and the
AdvFS software will change the partition use ("fstype") to AdvFS.
Thanks for all the answers,
Arjen
> Fellow managers,
>
> I have got the following disk:
>
> # /dev/rre2a:
> type: SWXCR
> disk: SWXCR
> label:
> flags:
> bytes/sector: 512
> sectors/track: 32
> tracks/cylinder: 128
> sectors/cylinder: 4096
> cylinders: 4339
> sectors/unit: 17772544
> rpm: 3600
> interleave: 1
> trackskew: 0
> cylinderskew: 0
> headswitch: 0 # milliseconds
> track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds
> drivedata: 0
>
> 8 partitions:
> # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] # NOTE:
> values t
> a: 131072 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl.
0
> - )
> b: 4096000 0 swap # (Cyl.
0
> - )
> c: 17772544 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl.
0
> - )
> d: 0 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl.
0
> - )
> e: 0 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl.
0
> - )
> f: 0 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl.
0
> - )
> g: 6163893 4096000 AdvFS # (Cyl.
1000
> - )
> h: 7478735 10293809 AdvFS # (Cyl.
> 2513*- )
>
> I want to change partition b from swap to AdvFS. Will this destroy the
> exisiting g and h partition when I relabel the disk? These are currently
in
> use by 2 filesystems. I want to do this on the fly without unmouting the g
> and h filesystems.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Arjen Visser
>
Tom
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Received on Thu Feb 28 2002 - 13:20:08 NZDT