[Sunhelp] How to increase the space of filesystem?

[Sampath Kumar Raja]

In michael's mail, u might need to change the tar command to look like 
below:

tar cvpf - /opt | tar xvpf -

Note that - came before /opt

Regards,
sampath
>From: sbasuki at us.ibm.com
>To: sunhelp at ohno.mrbill.net
>Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 12:37:33 -0400
>Subject: [Sunhelp] How to increase the space of filesystem?
>Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>
>Help.
>How to increase the space of  a filesystem?
>Say I have 200MB on /opt and I want to increase the space to 500MB
>from the same disk or other disk.
>
>Thank for any help.
>
>regards,
>
>Saptaji Basuki
>
>
>
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>
>Message: 3
>Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 18:58:14 +0200 (MEST)
>From: "Michael C. Vergallen" <mvergall at double-barrel.be>
>To: sunhelp at ohno.mrbill.net
>Subject: Re: [Sunhelp] How to increase the space of filesystem?
>Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>
>if you have an other disk with a slice that is free you just do this.
>
>mkfs /dev/slice where slice is the name of the disc slice
>mount /dev/slice /mnt
>cd /mnt
>tar cvpf /opt - | tar xvpf -
>umount /mnt
>umount /opt
>mount /dev/slice /opt
>Test the system
>edit /etc/vfstab and change the /opt filesystem defaults to reflect
>changes.
>
>This should be it.
>Michael
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