Relocating Primary Swap

[Gary Cooper_1]

Currently I have 8GB swap (/vg00/lvol2) on my root disk. I want to move this to another disk.
What I thought I would do was to create another Primary Swap area on the second disk then delete the original one.

I have created /vg01 on my second disk (and have made it bootable), and also created logical volume /vg01/lvol1. When I try to run lvlnboot -s /dev/vg01/lvol1, it returns:
"lvlnboot: A Root Logical Volume must be assigned before a Dump or Swap logical volume can be assigned"

I'me not quite sure where to go from here - any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Gary

[tkc]

hi gary,

are you not planning to use it as root device? the lvlnboot -r option will define the root lv on this /dev/vg01/lvol1

[tkc]

hi gary,

don't think you can just move out the primary swap just like that. you will need the primary swap as your dump space too.

[Gary Cooper_1]

I wasn't intending to make it my root device as that is currently my first disk (/vg00) and is working fine. I did think I might configure it as a dump device too though.

Cheers,

Gary

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

swap and dump do not need to be the same device. If one has the space, its best to locate them separately.

I have never in 15 years relocated swap. It can be done from the command line, but if I don't do something regularly, I'd say sam is a good choice.

You can define a new swap device, set the current one to become in active.

Then you have to boot your system for it all to take effect.

SEP

[Gary Cooper_1]

Shalom Ppeter,

I would normally have tried to use sam, however, this is an 11iv3 machine that uses smh instead of sam and I can't see where to configure primary swap using smh.

BTW, I want to relocate swap off the root disk because fresh out of the box, I have less than 2GB of disk to play with for extending my various file systems.

Thanks,

Gary

[Gary Cooper_1]

Sorry Steven, don't know where I got the Peter from!!! (Senior moment)

Cheers,

Gary