extending /stand with ignite?

[Chris Fadrowski]

Can anyone detail the procedure for extending /stand using Ignite-ux? i understand this is really the only way to do it.

[Helen French]

Hi,

Check this out:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x807706295e00d6118ff40090279cd0f9,00.html

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x425a039599eed5118ff40090279cd0f9,00.html

HTH,
Shiju

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Chris,

You take a full ignite backup of the system and using that you reboot the system and reinstall the OS on the root disk. This will wipe out all the previous information from the root disk. While reinstalling you can choose interactive install and select custom sizes for the lv's in the root vg including stand. For security purpose take two ignite backup and one fbackup from the system, if you are attempting this. If you have mirrored root, you have to either redo the mirroring manually or include it as part of the post install script.

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Patrick Wallek]

1) Make sure you have the latest version of Ignite/UX installed. Get it at: http://software.hp.com/products/IUX

2) Create 2 make_tape_recovery tapes:

# /opt/ignite/bin/make_tape_recovery -a /dev/rmt/0mn -I -v -x inc_entire=vg00

3) Boot from one of the tapes you just created.

4) Once you have booted from the tape and are at the Ignite/UX menu, then you can go through the menu options to the Filesystem menu (I think) and resize your LVs as you wish.

Once you are done, select 'GO!' and your server will be rebuilt with the new LV sizes you selected.

Good luck.

[Corthouts Carlo]

Hi,

The procedure I use for this is :

1) Create a recovery tape from which you can
recover your system if anything goes wrong.
make_recovery -A -v

2) run make_recovery in preview mode. This
will create a file config.recover
in /var/opt/ignite/recovery

3) Edit the file config.recover.

logical_volume "lvol1" {
usage=HFS
size=512000KB
mount_point="/stand"
minfree=10
file_length=LONG
blksize=8192
fragsize=1024
ncpg=16
nbpi=6392
rotational_delay=0
largefiles=FALSE
bad_block_relocate=false
contiguous_allocation=true
stripes=0
stripe_size=0KB
minor_number=0x01
disk[10/0.6.0]

You will find a section describing the logical volume containing /stand. In this section you
have to change the size to the size needed.

4) When you have made the changes, take a new tape and continue the make_recovery process with "make_recovery -r"


Since ignite uses the information from the config.recover to build your system again it will rebuild the /stand with size you have put in the config.recover file.