Extending /stand

[Chris Fadrowski]

What is the best procedure for extending /stand on a HPUX IA64 11/23 v2 server?

Looking for options..

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi Chris:

You could use DRD or Ignite. In the later case, make a recovery tape and resinstall, chosing the Advanced Installtion mode wherein you can set your filesystem sizes.

The DRD option is described here:

http://docs.hp.com/en/5992-1913/5992-1913.pdf

Regards!

...JRF...

[Patrick Wallek]

Create a make_tape_recovery tape or make_net_recovery image.

Reinstall the system from the image. During the install you can specify new sizes for any VG00 LV's you need to resize.

[Ganesan R]

Hi,

You can find lot of threats here related to same topic. First, why do you want to extend /stand filesystem. It is a static filesystem and will not grow normally. Cleanup with deleting unwanted files.

If you still want to extend, then ignite backup and restore is the recommanded way.

[Chris Fadrowski]

needed to load some patches and /stand was out of space to accomodate. I did clean up of system.prev (moved) and make it thru, but may experience problems in the future. This is an older box where file sizes weren't that large on vg00.

[Armin Kunaschik]

If MirrorUX is installed, check my answer in this thread:
http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1271691 or http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1296967

If you don't have MirrorUX, create an Ignite backup and resize while restoring.

My 2 cents,
Armin

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