Increasing root - 10.20

[John Stevens_2]

Hi folks, Is there any way of editing the files created by a make recovery command, to allow file system size increase, i.e. root, and/or primary swap?

We have interrupted the make recovery process whilst restoring to disk, and found that it created a 'new installation' of hpux 10.20 and all config files, e.g. hosts, have been set to default, If anyone knows which files to edit on the make recovery tape, we would be extremely grateful, points pending....

[Vijeesh CTK · Accepted solution]

u cando that by editing the file /var/opt/ignite/recovery/config.recover.

edit where ever necessary and make the recovery tape and do a recovery

for that u have to use make_recovery -p first. edit config.recover increase the size for the filesystems u want and resume make recovery with make_recovery -r.

or u can do interactive make recovery by specifiying -i option during making recovery tape and while doing recovery there is option to increase filesystem size etc.


CTK

[Donald Kok]

When installing an new machine, you can interrupt the proces, and change the size of the filesystems to be made.

If you are deploying many machines, you can make from this machine a 'perfect'ignitetape.

Goodluck
Donald

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi John:

You can easily do this, and it is in fact one way Ignite recovery is often used.

Get and use a current version of Ignite' from the Ignite site:

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

Once you have Ignite installed with 'swinstall', create a recovery tape of vg00:

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

Don't confuse the '-i' option of the old 'make_recovery' with the '-i' option of 'make_tape_recovery'. The '-I' option of 'make_tape_recovery' is the *same* as the '-i' option of make_recovery. '-I' means cause the Ignite process to be interactive when booting from tape.

Boot your server from the tape drive containing your Ignite tape. Select "No" when asked if you wish to interact with the IPL.

After a few minutes you will see the message "Recovery tape created from system on . Press return to continue". Do this.

Choose "Install / Media Only" and select the Advanced Installation tab to customize your installation. You can now re(specify) filesystem sizes (including swap).

Regards!

...JRF...

[John Stevens_2]

Apologies for the delay in assigning points, other commitments managed to get in the way, But many thanks to all who assisted with this problem.