moving the /.secure lvol

[Sean Dale]

We are going to be upgrading our production SAN and one of the requirements prior to the upgrade is to move all data from the LUNs in raid group 0 (the first 5 disks in the array). One of the lvols on the HP box sadly is the /dev/vgsecure lvol mounted as /.secure. I have successfully moved other data my mirroring to new LUNs then breaking the mirror, etc. I do not feel comfortable doing this approach with the /.secure filesystem as it is needed for a trusted system and should reside in /dev/vg00. What are my options to safely move this on a production server without breaking anything? Thanks!

[Duncan Edmonstone · Accepted solution]

Sean,

/.secure is the default location for the auditing subsystem which is usually enabled when a system is converted to trusted.

You can temporarily stop the auditing subsystem with:

audsys -f

Now you can umount /.secure and do as you please with moving it.

Once you have it remounted, restart the auditing subsystem with:

audsys -n

Thats it!

HTH

Duncan

[Sean Dale]

Excellent! Thank you very much!