enlarging /stand ???

[Allan Wright_1]

Hi,

I want to upgrade one of our HPUX machines from HPUX11 to HPUX11.11
The instruction say i need to extend the /stand partition but to do this i need to re-install the operating system which i do not want to do.
Is there anyway of upgrading the OS without doing this or extending /stand without re-installing the OS???

Cheers

[G. Vrijhoeven]

Allan,

If you want to upgrade from 11.00 to 11.11 I always advice a clean install. It is not possible to extend /stand without reinstalling, so there is your second reason.
I know HP tells you it is possible to upgrade, and i am sure that is has been done succesfully but if you do a search on the forum an upgrades you must knowtice it does not allways work smooth.

Regards,

Gideon

[Lorenzo Facello · Accepted solution]

Hi Allan,
I think there are only two ways to do this.

1. recovery of the operating system.
2. Boot of your ignite tape and extend it.

take a look also at this
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=6942

Regds
L.

[KapilRaj]

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Kaps

[John Carr_2]

Hi

the easiest way is ignite-UX to do this on the server

make_tape_recovery -A

now reboot the system and interrupt the boot sequence

type sea to see the devices P0 , P1 ...

when you see the tape device type

bo Px

interact with IPL ( Y/N) N

the server will boot from the tape

it will ask if you wish to interact and change the configuration at this stage you do change the /stand partition and let the restore complete.

:-) John.

[John Carr_2]

forgot if you dont have ignite installed get it for free

http://www.software.hp.com/products/IUX/download.html

John.

[Geoff Wild]

Here's another way:

Increase /stand:

The procedure listed is as follows -

/stand is only 84 MB, for 11i, needs to be at least 112 MB.

Boot your machine in LVM maintenance mode
(hpux -lm at ISL>)

#
# vgchange -a y /dev/vg00
# lvrmboot -r /dev/vg00
# lvremove /dev/vg00/lvol3
# lvremove /dev/vg00/lvol2
# lvextend -L 256 /dev/vg00/lvol1
# extendfs /dev/vg00/rlvol1
# lvcreate -L 1024 -C y -r n -n lvol2 /dev/vg00
# lvlnboot -b /dev/vg00/lvol1
# lvlnboot -r /dev/vg00/lvol4
# lvlnboot -s /dev/vg00/lvol2
# lvlnboot -d /dev/vg00/lvol2
# lvlnboot -R
# reboot -r

Note: lvol2 is swap, lvol3 was unused, lvol4 is /

Even if your lvol3 is root, you could still do this by shrinking the size of your primary swap...lvol2

Rgds...Geoff