HP-UX 11 v3 root parttion extend

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

Summary of options:
1) root can not be extended. It must be contiguous. If you happened to leave some space unallocated immediately after the root partition than there is nothing stopping you from extending it. I've done systems like that in the past.

2) DRD the system to an alternate boot disk. There is an interface or command that can be used to build the new system with a larger root partition. Then you can activate the new disk, reactivate the current disk and reboot. DRD is primarily a cloning tool but is useful in this context.

3) Burn and ignite make_tape_recovery or make_net_recovery. It should include only vg00. Boot off the image, and there is on console an option to intervene and manually change partition size.

4) Figure out what is sitting on root that does not belong. Though I commonly do root at a larger than needed size to minimize the risk from accidental files landing on root, the root file system default size is adequate and files don't really belong there unless they are configuration files. All other files belong on mounted file systems.

SEP