Coda File System

Re: Moving RVM and LOG partitions to a new disk

From: Douglas C. MacKenzie <doug_at_mobile-intelligence.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 09:19:10 -0400
Alex,

I haven't tried yet.  I did not get any responses to my original
question.

	Doug

Alex Kraemer wrote:
> 
> Douglas~
> could you solve this problem ? If yes please let me know how you did it.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> --
> Alex Kraemer
> email: akraemer_at_biochem.uni-kiel.de
> fax/phone: ++ 49 431 880 2228
> < a challenge conceals a conquest >

"Douglas C. MacKenzie" wrote:
> 
> I need to move my RVM and LOG partitions to a different disk drive
> and I would like to expand the RVM size at the same time.
> What is the procedure?
> 
> I'm thinking about taking down the clients, using backup to dump the
> volumes to a unix partition, reinitializing the server with the new
> RVM and LOG partitions and sizes, and then restoring the backed-up
> volumes.
> Will that work?  Is that the easiest method?
> 
> I currently only have a single server running. Can the RVM data sizes
> differ on different servers?  If so, would it work to add a second
> server with a larger RVM data size, take down the old one, reinit it
> with a larger RVM size, bring it back up, and use the ls -r method to
> regenerate its local copies of the volumes using the larger RVM?
> 
> I'm currently running Coda version 5.3.7-1 on RedHat Linux 6.2
> Is it worth trying to also upgrade to 5.3.9 during this process,
> or just wait for RedHat 7.0?
> 


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Received on 2000-10-20 10:38:43