Quick question about /var

[Michael Campbell]

Folks

I have to extend a filesystem whose mountpoint is /var/opt/omni/db. Is this going to cause the same hassle as extending /var itself, i.e. Single User Mode etc.

Regards

Michael

[Nick Wickens]

Do a bdf command and check if /var/opt/omni/db is in its own filesystem. If it is (and it should be really as this directory can get very big) then you will just need to shutdown omniback (/opt/omni/sbin/omnisv.sh -stop or using service guard commands if its a service guard package) before unmounting. (That is assuming you dont have onlinejfs).

[Pete Randall]

Michael,

That's Omniback's database file. Just shutting down Omniback should release it so you can enlarge.

Pete

[Peter Kloetgen]

Hi Michael,

you should stop Omniback ( have a look, that no backups are currently running ), extend your file system for OB database, and then restart Omniback services. That should do it for you.

Allways stay on the bright side of life!

Peter

[steven Burgess_2 · Accepted solution]

Michael

/var/opt/omni/db is the omniback database and is seperate to /var

You can clear it down using omniback utilites

If you are going to extend it then yes - same goes for any other filesystem. You will of course backup all data in that area first

To extend - ensure no running sessions

omnistat

Stop omniback

/sbin/init.d/omni stop

unmount the filesystem

umount /var/opt/omni/db

Extend the volume group

pvcreate /dev/rdsk/c*t*d*
vegextend vg0* /dev/dsk/c*t*d*

Extend the lvol

lvextend -L /dev/vg0*/lvol* /dev/dsk/c*t*d*

Extend the filsesystem

extendfs -F vxfs /dev/vg0*/lvol*

If you are using Online JFS you don't need to unmount the filsystem

fsadm -F vxfs 8192000 /var/opt/omni/dd

819200 represents 800 Mb converted to KB

HTH

Steve