[SunHELP] help w/ unmirroring swap

[Phil Stracchino]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 04:01:21PM -0400, Edward Chase wrote:
> Currently I have a Solaris 9 box that has a mirrored swap space.  We have a
> quick need to increase swap space.  I'm thinking that I can unmirror swap
> and then turn on both partitions as swap.  I'll get double the current swap
> and lose the protection that mirroring provides.
> 
> Would the easiest way be to just alter the vfstab file and reboot?
> 
> The current entry is
> 
> /dev/md/dsk/d1  -       -       swap    -       no      -
> 
> If I was to just replace it with
> 
> /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1       -       -       swap    -       no      -
> /dev/dsk/c0t1d0s1       -       -       swap    -       no      -
> 
> Would that work?  Or do I have to worry at all about the metadevice, d1?


Actually, you don't even need to bounce the box.  Disable swap, delete
the metadevice, alter vfstab, re-enable swap.  Bam, you're done.



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