moving /home to a different volume group

[Shawn Miller_2]

I know how to do this I am just wondering if there is any negative impact on taking /home out of vg00 and putting it into a different volume group on a different set of mirrored physical disks.

[Pete Randall · Accepted solution]

Shawn,

There shouldn't be any negative impact - in fact it's probably a very good idea. Without /home, vg00 will be truly static.


Pete

[John Palmer]

None that I can think of, it's not an essential part of the root volume group.

Regards,
John

[doug mielke]

a tiny concern may be that ignite backups will no longer include /home by default.

[Fabio Ettore]

Hi Shawn,

I think that putting /home in another volume group different than vg00 could be even advisable. In this way users stores their stuff in a volume group different than vg00 and sometimes this is the best thing ;-)
Anyway it is just to tell you that there are not negative impacts.

Best regards,
Ettore

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Shawn,

You can do it but you'll have to find a window when all users except root are off or can be knocked off as you won't be able to move it w/o unmounting it & won't be able to unmount it if users are logged in. Also make two fbackup tapes of /home before removing it from vg00 & adding it to the new VG just to be safe.

As to /home being excluded from make_tape_recovery now that it's out of vg00 - just use

-x include=/home

in the command line to include it in the recovery tape.

Rgds,
Jeff