topic Re: addind space to a file system to a cluster in Operating System - HP-UX

addind space to a file system to a cluster

Waqar Razi — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:02:46 GMT

One of the file systems in MC service guard environment is full. I have checked the volume group having logical volume for that file system. I has some free space available.

I added some space to the logical volume by using lvextend and then increased the file system by using fsadm.

My question is that do we need to do create map file and then copy it to other nodes in the cluster. In this case, we havent added any disk to the cluster. Just increased the logical volume and then the file system size by using the available space from VG.

Re: addind space to a file system to a cluster

Mark McDonald_2 — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:08:20 GMT

No new disk, so no map file required. That will work fine as it is.

Re: addind space to a file system to a cluster

sujit kumar singh — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:15:49 GMT

hi

Yes after lvextend, the extendfs to achieve that, but keep in view that lvextend requires the LV to unmounted.(that means that package should be ideally halted)

If the system on which the Packacge is running has onlineJFS installed then you absolutely do not require the package to be halted or the LV to be unmounted at all: do an lvextend followed by the fsadm.

Regards
sujit

Re: addind space to a file system to a cluster

Johnson Punniyalingam — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 10:44:43 GMT

Hi Razi,

>>My question is that do we need to do create map file and then copy it to other nodes in the cluster. In this case, we havent added any disk to the cluster<<<

No Need, Hence we are not adding disk we are only extending logical volume using lvextend File System with Online JFS.

Which Case , do we need to vexport and vgimport.?

if you are adding "new disk" You need to

Example:-
ServerA
========
vgexport -pvs -m vg03.map /dev/vg03

scp *.map userid@ServerB:/home/userid
(copying the map files to ServerB)

ServerB:-
=========
On the other node:
1. Export the VG
>>>vgexport /dev/vgxx

2. Recreate the directory
>>>>mkdir -p /dev/vgxx

3. Recreate the VG group file
>>>mknod /dev/vgxx/group c 64 0xMM0000
where MM is a unique identifier (ex 01 for vg01)

4. Preview the vgimport to check for any possible error
>>>>vgimport -pvs -m /dev/vgxx
where mapfile is the one copied from the first node

5. If no error, remove the preview mode
>>>>vgimport -vs -m /dev/vgxx

6. Activate in share mode
>>>>vgchange -a s /dev/vgxx

(Hope the above steps Clear's Your Question)

Thanks,
Johnson