SUMMARY: vxvm disk problems...

Hi all,

 

Thanks to everybody who replied, in particular to the following people:

 

Steven Hill

Johan Hartzenberg

Paul Clayton

Darren Dunham

 

Eventually as many people suggested the filesystem needs to be grown, the
point was how considering it was a UFS, I was 

unaware that there's a separate mkfs command available under /usr/lib/fs/ufs
not the usual one sitting under /usr/sbin, the scary thing is if by accident
the usual mkfs is used you will have to start recalling backup tapes!!! So I
managed to "grow" the UFS by the following command:

 

root@server> /usr/lib/fs/ufs/mkfs -F ufs -M /mount/point
/dev/vx/rdsk/somedg/somevol 1068182776

 

The last parameter, i.e. the size to be increased can be mentioned in
512kb(I am not sure abt this) but I used the following command under vxvm to
get the size:

 

root@server> vxprint -g somedg -t somevol

 

which prints something on the following lines:

 

        V  NAME         USETYPE      KSTATE   STATE    LENGTH   READPOL  

PREFPLEX

        v  vol01        fsgen        ENABLED  ACTIVE   10639360 SELECT    -

 

The number display under the "LENGTH" column is the one to be used in the
/usr/lib/fs/ufs/mkfs command. Thanks once again and hope this helps
somebody.

 

Regards,

Kumar sg

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Kumar Guhan 
Sent: 27 February 2003 13:20
To: 'sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org'
Subject: vxvm disk problems...

 

Hi Managers,

 

I had to put in a couple of disks in our sun storedge array, and did the
following sequence of commands:

 

boot -r

newfs -F UFS /dev/rdsk/c1t1d3s2

 

and put the disk under the control of veritas vol mgr through the vxdiskadm
utility by adding the new disks,

 

just to check the space availability of the volume:

 

vxassist -g ccidg maxgrow volname

 

this returned it can grow by 12g

 

after that to increase the volume size by 4g

 

vxassist -g ccidg growby volname 4000m

 

after executing this command, it promptly returns back. But I am not able to
see any space increase in df -k

And the vxassist maxgrow command still says it can grow by 12g.

 

The version of vxvm is 2.6 and I don't have vxtask list to know whether its
doing something in the background or not. 

I don't know what I am missing... any help would be appreciated and will
summarise.

 

TIA

Kumar sg



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