Interactive Ignite - Need to increase file systems but can't

[Angie_1]

Well its me again and here is my second question for today. Hopefully the last too. I have an interesting problem now with Ignite.

I presently have 2 disks in VG00 and that is what the Ignite image is of.

When I boot off of the Ignite tape and go into the ignite interactive menu, and try to modify the filesystem sizes, it says I don't have enough space in Vg00. I do though.. in fact my space Available even says I have many megs left, but when I increase a few file systems it errors out acting as if I truly don't have a second disk in the VG00. So I try to proceed on and it won't continue on with the ignite as long as I have these errors.

Anyone else see this problem? I could just ignite it as is with the current file system sizes, and then increase them at single user mode but I thought with this interactive Ignite, that I could just do it there. It seems to be its just not working correctly.

Angie

[Bill Hassell]

Ignite probably did not include the second disk when you went to interactive mode. Just return to the main menu and look for advanced disk changes. It will show you all the disks and allow you to pick which one(s) you'd like to add the VG00.

[Steven E. Protter]

I'd need to see the error text to be sure.

I've seen situations when the PE size is too small and all usuable space on the disks is unavailable.


If you do the following you should be able to do what you wish.

do make_tape_recovery tape

Boot at console

Intervene at the 10 second prompt

sea

bo p2 if the sequential device is p2

N Interact with ISL

Interupt at the keyboard to the interactive Ignite Interface.

SEP

[Angie_1]

Ok I went and wrote down the whole error.

To recap a bit... I have 2 18-gig disks in VG00 and this was done BEFORE the ignite image was made.

I am now in Ignite Interactive mode and want to expand /tmp.

Right now its at 2000 MB (2 gig) and I want to increase it to 3000 MB (3 gig).

Available on this screen says 17396 MB (how much room is available for me to expand my filesystems).

When I change it from 2000 to 3000 and click on "Modify" button to apply the change within Ignite interactive, it says the following error:

"Message from /opt/ignite/bin/itool ()

The following errors occurred while trying to apply the current file system layout to the available physical disk space. One possible reason for the errors is that you have selected a root disk which is too small in size.

ERROR: There is not enough disk space to allocate for volume: "/u01" Short by 964 Mb.

It then proceeds to change tmp to 3000 and I have now 16396 MB Avail.

SO it errors out... and it changes it. Now if I proceeded on with "GO!".. it wouldn't do it because it would say I would have errors to fix.

I'm stumped.

Angie

[Bernhard Mueller]

Angie,

I have had quite a similar issue. My guess was that it had to do with the Ignite version, because I have done similar filesystem size increase/decrease in cloning systems before.

I am not sure but I think the issue was with version 4.1.61. You might want to try a version 3 Ignite-UX to double-check...

Interestingly I had to downsize for a smaller disk and the more I decreased the lvol the more extents Ignite was missing! Somewhere some size calculation must be broken...

Regards,
Bernhard

[Ian Box]

It may be because there is insufficient space on the first disk to increase the size of the filesystem.

Click on the 'additional tasks' button, then go to 'volume parameters'. You will probably find that under the disk column it says '1'. If you click on the disk mapping button you should be able to change that to 'any' and then ignite will create the filesystem on any of the disks that has enough space.

Ian

[Angie_1]

I will try to go into the volume parameters as the last posting suggested and report back what happens.

Thanks!
Angie