i need to increase the space in / and /var ...

[Onur Karakan]

Hi sekar,
it is not possible to increase / filesystem with the LVM commands. You can only increase it with ignite.
Take ignite of your system
make_tape_recovery -Av

break in boot
search
boot p? (your tape drive)
No to interact with IPL

Press "Return" for the specified mode.
Yes to user interface

User interface will be appeared. Choose Install HP-UX.
Choose filesystems tab.
Then increase / filesystem size from here.

Best regards,
Onur

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom Sekar,


To increase root,

Take a make_tape_recovery backup of vg00.

Boot the system off this tape and press a key when prompted to get into the Ignite install interface.

Make root and var for that matter bigger.

Before you bother though, make sure you are not storing any real files in root. its really only there to provide path to other filesystems.

I keep root on HP-UX systems at 1 GB just to make mistakes less annoying. I rarely if ever use more than 200 MB.

SEP

[inventsekar_1]

thank u all...
i incresed the space in /var
and i learnt from u that using tap only its possible to increse the space in /

thanks once again..

[Judy Anderson]

I read this thread with interest, as I need to extend /usr and /var on my hpux 11.00 system. It looks like these instructions will work great for /var, but because lvextend and extendfs live on /usr, I'm imagining it won't work for that filesystem. What should I do?

[Torsten.]

"What sould I do?"

Open your own thread for your own question!

This is usual in every forum.

BTW, you should boot to LVM maintenance mode and do the modification.

[inventsekar_1]

"It looks like these instructions will work great for /var, but because lvextend and extendfs live on /usr, I'm imagining it won't work for that filesystem"

the second "/usr" is "/var". typo error isnt?

no. not like that. where commands live doesnt matter.

anyhow no problem to ask a question inside another question. it is the question auther's responsibility to assign or not assign points.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Judy:

Do:

# whereis lvextend
# whereis extendfs

...and you will see that a statically-linked binary for each lives in '/sbin' which will thus be available in single-user mode.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Judy Anderson]

Thank you for your responses. I'll give it a go. Sorry for being a newbie :-)