Solaris Expanding a File System on the Fly using SVM

By Joseph Gan
A metadevice consists of one or more devices (slices). It can be expanded by adding slices. Then, it can be grown to fill a larger space while the file system is in use.
However, not all UNIX file systems (UFS) can be expanded this way. The concatenation is good only for small random I/O [...]

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Solaris expanding a File System Without Mounting It As a Meta Device using SVM

Joseph Gan, August, 2004
What can you do if a file system needs to grow, but it cannot be mounted as a metadevice on the fly? What if the file system is not suitable to be mounted as a metadevice? What can you do when file systems like these run out the space?
Usually you have to [...]

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Solaris moving a File System to Another Partition on the Fly using SVM

Joseph Gan, August, 2004
Let’s say you need to move the data of a file system from one partition to another on a disk unit such as a Sun RSM Array, a Sun StorEdge T3 array, or a RAID device from StorageTek. This generally involves dismounting the file system, backing it up to tapes, and restoring [...]

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