Size of USers

[BES_1]

Does anybody knows how to increase the size of "users" without re-intalling everything again?

[Pete Randall]

Free buffet?

Seriously, if you're referring to their home directory space, it can increase as long as there is room in the file system - assuming you're not using quotas. If the file system fills up, then you're going to have to enlarge it. If you have enough space in the volume group, you can get everyone out of the file system, lvextend, extendfs and go on with life - the only difficult part is getting everyone out: you may need to go to single user mode to accomplish this. If you have a lot of space you can create a new, larger file system and copy everything over to it.

Of course, if you're still running release 9.x and your home directory space truly is called /users, then it's a whole 'nother story!


Pete

[Todd McDaniel_1]

Not sure what filesystem you are talking about.

/usr filesystem? or /users home directory?

Either way vg00 or the VG where /users is mounted can be extended if you have room in the VG or add a disk + mirror to it.

You can do the procedure online if you can at least minimize the activity on the box.

If you are using LVM...

To find out if you have addl space...Look at the disks in the VG and see if they have any available FREE PEs...

#vgdisplay -v /dev/vg**

IF you do have FREE PEs, then run:

lvextend -L /dev/vg**/lvol /dev/dsk/c*t*d*
fsadm -F vxfs -b /mountpoint

[BES_1]

I am using HP-Unix B.10.20.
I do not use Unix much. What is LVM?
Is it part of B.10.20?

ThanX

[Pete Randall]

Yes, LVM is part of HP-UX 10.20. It may or may not be used, however. Post the output of the "bdf -l" command and we'll be able to give you a clearer idea of what is needed.


Pete

[Umapathy S]

Hi,
LVM stands for Logical Volume Manager. Its a tool to manage the disk and diskspaces at a more higher level. You define volume groups which in turn consists of logical volumes. Each logical volume can be associated with a partition/file_system. Also each physical disk can be associated with a Logical Volume. So the disks can be removed or added withouth much fuss to the file systems.

Refer chapter 3 here http://docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90672/B2355-90672.html

HTH,
Umapathy