[SunHELP] Increasing root partition

[Will Mc Donald]

I've only ever used dd between identical disks and partitions, I suspect you
should be able to make it work but you may have less grief in the long run
if you partion and label the new drive, newfs it, mount it then tar or
ufsdump the old root partition across. There's an example in the tar man
page...

cd fromdir; tar cf - .| (cd todir; tar xfBp -)

Will.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Maarten Deen" <mdeen at xs4all.nl>
To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2001 3:15 PM
Subject: [SunHELP] Increasing root partition


> Hi,
>
> my / partition has become too small and now I want to increase it
> without having to install Solaris. I was thinking of partitioning a new
> disk with larger / and then use dd to copy all the info there. I tried it
> and I couldn't even get the new partition to mount, it was not labeled
> after I dd'd / there.
> Is this the wrong approach? How to do this otherwise?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Maarten
>