Re: increase parition size for /home on AIX 5.1

From: Kent Squires (ksquires_at_geeks.org)
Date: 09/17/03 

Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 09:12:41 -0500

smitty chjfs2
select /home

 Under SIZE of filesytems
select Megabytes (put the curor on the Unit Size line and hit F4)
for Number of Units, just use +32 to add 32MB (make sure you
use the plus sign - this tells the system to ADD that much space)

On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 14:44:58 +0100, "Tim Alsop"
<Tim.Alsop@CyberSafe.Ltd.UK> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I have AIX 5.1 installed and the jfs2 partition type was selected during the
>install. The disk is 9gb, but I don't beleive this space is fully used by
>the partitions. I need to increase the size of /home which is partition hd1.
>
>I am not familiar with the appropriate commands to use, but I discovered the
>extendlv command so I have been able to increase the partition size using
>this command : extendlv hd1 100
>
>Is this all I need to do ?
>I did a 'df' and the allocated and free blocks are the same before and after
>the extendlv was issued. I therefore assume that I need an additional
>command to make use of the extra space ?
>
>Can somebody explain to me what I need to do ?
>
>Thanks, Tim.
>

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