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List:       opensolaris-sysadmin-discuss
Subject:    Re: [sysadmin-discuss] Re: how to copy FC boot disk to another
From:       Torrey McMahon <Torrey.McMahon () Sun ! COM>
Date:       2006-09-03 17:54:49
Message-ID: 44FB16E9.8080604 () sun ! com
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Use live upgrade. It's free and comes with Solaris.

http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-5777/6n7raickc?a=view

is the doc for the latest Solaris release. Make sure you look at the one 
for your Solaris release.

Krzys wrote:
> Thats exactly what I think. Well there are few issues that I cvan see.
> 1) can be done with veritas I would imagine to have different disk 
> sizes but veritas is expensive solution.
> 2) I am not that experienced with Sun's Volume Manager...
>
> Well the goal for me was to replace one small FC drive with another 
> thats larger but at the same time avoind problems with WWN's. and that 
> is why I asked my question to see if anyone had some comments and 
> easly solutions but I di dnot get many responses that would help me 
> much so I will just do the following:
>
> 1: create partition table on new disk
> 2: use ufsdumt/rerstore to move content
> 3: change WWN in /etc/vfstab
> 4: installboot on the new drive.
>
> Does this seems like it would work? Anything else do I need to take 
> care when moving content of one drive to another?
>
> I did not want to complicate this simple process and install VM on the 
> system, mirror disks etc...
>
> If anyone had scripts to mirror boot fc disk that I could use I would 
> certainly appreciate them, as I said I wanted a simple solution to 
> this problem and not overcomplicate it.
>
> Thanks for comments.
>
> Chris
>
>
> On Sun, 3 Sep 2006, Torrey McMahon wrote:
>
>> Because the mirror will not allow one side to be larger then the other.
>>
>> Mikael Kjerrman wrote:
>>> If you are not going to move it to another system and just want the 
>>> rootdisk to become bigger, why not just mirror the 36G to the 73G?
>>>

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