How to grow a volume and file system.
TechNote ID: 187220 Last Updated: February 08 2000 01:15 AM GMT
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Symptom:
How to grow a volume and file system.
Solution:

1) Determine the device name with df -k command:
   #df -k
   Filesystem            kbytes    used   avail capacity  Mounted on
   /dev/vx/dsk/rootvol  4030518 1201027 2789186    31%    /
   /dev/vx/dsk/usr       962134  404374  500032    45%    /usr
   /proc                      0       0       0     0%    /proc
   fd                         0       0       0     0%    /dev/fd
   /dev/vx/dsk/opt      2877758  443170 2377033    16%    /opt
   swap                  371456     272  371184     1%    /tmp
   /dev/vx/dsk/datadg/mail     3445728 3132232  313496    81%    /mail


2) Determine the file system type with fstyp command:
    fstyp <device name> also fstyp /dev/vx/dsk/<diskgroup>/<volume-name>
    #fstyp /dev/vx/dsk/datadg/mail
    vxfs
   
3) To grow 2g volume and file system to 5g, use the vxresize command:
   vxresize -F <fstyp> -g <disk group> <volume> <newlength>
    #vxresize -F vxfs -g rootdg  mail 5g

note: <newlength> will not be accepted with a  decimal.  The default is sectors unless specified.
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TechNote Summary:
TechNote Title: How to grow a volume and file system.
TechNote ID: 187220
Last Updated: February 08 2000 01:15 AM GMT
Document Expires:
This information in this TechNote applies to:
Products:
Volume Manager for UNIX   3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2
Subject: Application - How To
Languages: NA
Operating Systems:
Solaris   2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.6, 7.0 (32-bit)
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