HP 9000-Hard Drive Help

[Bill Ogle]

I have 4 8-gig SCSI hard drives in this server, and one of them has a logical volume that is maxed. I need to figure out a way to free up space, give it more space, or have someone come out here to see if the drive needs to be replaced. Any suggestions would be great!

Bill Ogle
Eerdmans Publishing
Grand Rapids, MI

[Dan Am · Accepted solution]

1. if you have space in your volumegroup
just use lvextend -L vol>

2. if you have space in another volumegroup
use pvmove
and vgreduce to free up a disk
then vgextend to add the disk to the vg
the full lv belongs to

3. no space anywhere:

connect new disk
run : insf -e
run : ioscan -nf
pvcreate /dev/rdsk/
vgextend /dev/vg0X /dev/dsk/
lvextend -L /

hope that helps

dan

[Brian M. Fisher]

If you have any disks that are not currently used you could add the space to the volume group that is maxed and extend the logical volume.

Another less pretty solution, but VERY effective, is to move a large directory from the maxed drive to another location and create a symbolic link between the two.

Brian
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