Re: Veritas Voume Mgr. Root Disk Encapsulation

sunsystem8@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
I was reading the doc on it, and I see following statement:

Ensure that bootdisk meets all these criteria

"There must be minimum of 2048 sectors at the beginning or end of the
boot disk that are not assigned to a partition"

(Other criterias are met)

Here is what disk partition looks like (o.s. drive)
- c3t0d0
Part Tag Flag Cylinders Size Blocks
0 root wm 0 - 4923 8.43GB (4924/0/0)
17682084
1 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
2 backup wm 0 - 4923 8.43GB (4924/0/0)
17682084
3 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
4 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
5 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
6 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
7 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0

Do you not even have a swap partition? If not, you cannot at the
moment encapsulate this drive. It requires space that you do not have,
and you cannot generate (because you can't shrink the filesystem).

You can copy the data from one disk to another into a smaller
filesystem, leaving space for later encapsulation.

(Swap file system it on 3rd drive and we have 4th drive to mirror swap
as well. However, on 3rd disk, there are not sectors available like in
the case of root).

Right.

Is it still possible (somehow) to mirror root drive without
reinstalling o.s. ? If not, what are my other alternatives ? Would
buying additional drives (we have empty bays in D1000) would help with
this issue ?

You don't have to "reinstall", but you do have to move things around to
generate the free space you need.

I am trying to mirror drives so if my root drives goes bad, the server
keeps running.

Yup. You could also mirror with SVM, but even there I'd prefer to have
a metadb partition on the root drive, and you'd still have to copy
things around to generate the space for it.

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Darren Dunham ddunham@xxxxxxxx
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