how to extend lv

[vanda982]

Hi i am new for hpunix, i am having below partition for my workstation.

Filesystem kbytes used avail %used Mounted on
/dev/vg00/lvol4 4194304 2430177 1654093 60% /
/dev/vg00/lvol1 63765 17622 39766 31% /stand
/dev/vg00/lvol5 4096000 18589 3822610 0% /usr

i want to create separate partition for /opt and /var

what are the step need to follow.

[avizen9]

Hello,
first of all,

why you want to create additional parition for /var/ /opt?

your / still having enough space to handle data, let me know

[vanda982]

thank you for reply,
my root may times full becuase of /var/ /opt

[Taifur]

Hi Vanda982,

For creating LV you can follow below procedure:

Create Lvol:
=============
#lvcreate -L 20480 -n lvol9 /dev/vgdatabase
#lvcreate -L 20480 -n lvol10 /dev/vgdatabase
#lvcreate -L 20480 -n lvol11 /dev/vgdatabase

#newfs -F vxfs -o largefiles /dev/vgdatabase/rlvol9
#newfs -F vxfs -o largefiles /dev/vgdatabase/rlvol10
#newfs -F vxfs -o largefiles /dev/vgdatabase/rlvol11

Edit vi /etc/fstab:
===================
/dev/vgdatabase/lvol9 /u01 vxfs delaylog 0 2
/dev/vgdatabase/lvol10 /u02 vxfs delaylog 0 2
/dev/vgdatabase/lvol11 /u03 vxfs delaylog 0 2

Rgds//
Taifur

[vanda982]

let me try with lvcrate (man lvcreate)
shall i also move all old /var /opt data once i will create that.


basically i want to migrate /var /opt from my (root)

i can access this station remotly. is this possible?

[avizen9]

you may can do this,

have you check your vg having enough space to create new logical volume?
you can check it through
vgdisplay -v
let me know, thanks.

[vanda982]

thanks
i have free space there,
what steps need to follow can i do it remotly,

//vanda

[Johnson Punniyalingam]

Hi Vanda982,

It not that easy to create seprate

partition for /opt and /var

Reason for creating seprate partition for /opt and /var due to you / file system many time full,

Couple of options

1. You can increase your vg00 adding extra disk to vg00.
2. Once vg00 has been added extra disk vg00
3. Use Ignite resize the / File System.

Thanks,
Johnson

[Johnson Punniyalingam]

Option 2:-

Example :- & for vg00

does your vg00 mirrored .? If yes

reduce to your from your vg00 than add the with bigger size disk and mirror back from to

Once done try to boot from and follow above predcure versa vice,

so finally your are having Bigger size,

try to find root cause why /var /opt increasing.?

Thanks,
Johnson

[vanda982]

thanks for your response,
its not server its workstation, it doesnt have mirror and i dont want to use ignit
Ok let me elaborate more here which will give clear picture.

I am having many production hpux workstation which having /opt and /var inside (/root) I am getting frequently issue for /root full. and then I need to remove logs from /(root) or some unwanted files, since /root goes full user can not launch their application.

I donâ t want to extend /root with ignite for all stations as its time consuming process and also physical present require there. I am having option I Can re-image but that will also time consuming and require physical present.

So only left with one option i can migrate /opt /var from root which will indirectly extend my /root partition and I want to do this task remotely, hope this is clear now to all, please anybody else can help me for this.

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi,
---
So only left with one option i can migrate /opt /var from root which will indirectly extend my /root partition and I want to do this task remotely, hope this is clear now to all, please anybody else can help me for this.
--

The first question is, do you have enough free extends on you vg00 volumegroup?
# vgdisplay -v vg00

You might be able to execute this task remotely. Download the lsof tool from;
http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/lsof-4.81/

Stop as many application on the workstation.
sendmail
syslog
ntp
swagentd
etc, etc

Check what is running on /var and /opt
# lsof / | grep var
kill it if it is using the /var or /opt


Create a new filesystem in your vg00 volume group.

# lvcreate -L size_mb -n lvolX /dev/vg00
# lvcreate -L size_mb -n lvolY /dev/vg00
change the X and Y.

# newfs -F vxfs /dev/vg00/rlovlX
# newfs -F vxfs /dev/vg00/rlovlY

Move the opt and var directories.

# mv /var /var1
# mkdir /var
# mount /dev/vg00/lovlX /var
Check the ownership and permissions of /var
# cd /var1
# find . | cpio -pcmudv /var
add the mountpoint and device to the /etc/fstab.

same for opt.
# shutdown -r -y now
If all is running ok, remove the /var1 and the /opt1 directories.

Hope this helps,
Robert-Jan

[avizen9 · Accepted solution]

you can also do something like below.
create new logical volume as mentioned.
guess your new logical volume is mount as

/dev/vg00/lvol8/var1
/dev/vg00/lvol9/opt1

do tar for whole /var and /opt data (tar will support upto 2gb data only if its more then 2gb then you need to use gtar)

cd /var
tar cvf var.tar *

cd /opt
tar cvf opt.tar *

mv var.tar /var1
mv opt.tar /opt1

cd /var1
tar xvf var.tar
cd /opt1
tar xvf opt.tar

once this done you can verify /var1 and /opt1 with your actual data
if everything ok you can remove /var and /opt and rename /var1 and /opt1 to /var /opt

and upudate /etc/fstab.

this will help. let me know how it goes... best of luck, thanks,

[vanda982]

thanks
I tried to umount /var and /opt but its giving error divice busy, many process i cant kill by Kill -9, any other sugguestion.

[Torsten.]

I tried to umount /var and /opt but its giving error divice busy, many process i cant kill by Kill -9, any other sugguestion.

This is exactly the point that stops you from doing this remotely.


You can try to create the new lvols, tar the current /opt and ... untar it to the new lvol, modify fstab to use the new lvols, reboot and hope you did modify the "old" contents of /opt during this time.

Better to do an ignite backup and restore to different new lvols.

On (most) workstations you cannot work in single user mode remotely - that's the problem.

[avizen9]

I tried to umount /var and /opt but its giving error divice busy, many process i cant kill by Kill -9, any other sugguestion.

do you aware about fuser command?
fuser -u /dev/vg00/lvolx (full path of lv)
you may use k to kill all process for that particular lv, please check #man fuser for more detail.
i am not 100% sure it will work correctly as per your requirement, but can try it.
let us know

[vanda982]

good....

i did this for /tmp it working fine, with /var /opt facing some issue and looks i need to do some more work on it.
anyway thanks all for great support here.

[Hakki Aydin Ucar]

I do not know if your HP UX OS version support Online JFS but ,as far as I know the best way to do that is to use Online JFS to extend mounted JFS file system (vxfs) by remotely:
the steps you have to follow then :

lvextend .options..
fsadm .options..

[Hakki Aydin Ucar]

more detail of Online JFS usage:

extended to 800 Mbytes, you can use the following :

lvextend -L 800 /dev/vg03/lvol4

and suppose you mounted it to directory "/extra"

The following command will extend the size of the file system to 800 Mbytes, where 819200 represents 800 MBytes converted to kilobytes.

fsadm -F vxfs -b 819200 /extra

so you don t need to unmount FS you want to extend. .