[SunHELP] Increasing root partition

[Gil Young]

donf forget to do an installboot on the new partition as well, see the man
page the string is not an easy one to remember and changes between platforms
Gil Young
Call Sign: W1GJY
----- Original Message -----
From: "Will Mc Donald" <wmcdonald at orctel.co.uk>
To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2001 10:50 AM
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] Increasing root partition


> 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
> >
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