[rescue] Sun 5.7 disk partion juggling

[Michael A. Turner]

	Well sounds do able, unfotunatly it is about what I figured it was
like. I was secretly hoping that their was a magic set of commands that
would work through telnet to make it happen. Since the sparc sits 80 miles
away from me and the people on site are not the brightest bulbs in the pack
I think I will just continue to delete mail out of the slice. Frankly I have
$5 that says that a backup has never been done of that system, let alone
getting them to do another. The very Idea of sending them into single user
mode over the phone to direct them is making me naseous....

Michael A. Turner
Systems Engineer
WHRO
michael.turner at whro.org
http://www.whro.org


> -----Original Message-----
> From: George Adkins [mailto:george at webbastard.org]
> Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 8:00 PM
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [rescue] Sun 5.7 disk partion juggling
> 
> 
> > gets used at all so I want to move free space to the 
> mail-gear partion (I
> > know that is a crude way of saying it but it makes the most 
> sense to me :-)
> > ). How do I do that, can I do that? how dangerous is it? Is 
> their any way
> > to repartion a drive without wiping out the contents of the partions
> > involved? inquiring minds want to know....
> >
> If you want to juggle space on non-root partitions, it's as 
> simple as :
> 1. Dump affected partitions (twice)
> 2. test your backups
> 2a. re-test your backups
> 3. boot single user
> 4. edit partition tables
> 5. newfs the new slices
> 6. restore
> 7. return to multi-user...
> 
> easy enough?
> 
> George
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