Hello Nick,
As this was already discussed, please look growfs command before that.
Also I don't think that you'll damage slices 0,4 and 5 but DO BACKUP
them as well :-)
Good luck,
Peter
Thursday, November 6, 2003, 12:14:02 PM, you wrote:
Icke, Nick> Hi
Icke, Nick> I require to expand a disk slice , here is my plan
Icke, Nick> 1. Backup of data on slice 1
Icke, Nick> 2. Unmount slice 1 & 3
Icke, Nick> 2. Via the format cmd
Icke, Nick> Reduce the size of slice 3 to 0 (this is not currently used)
Icke, Nick> Realloc slice 1 to include the cyls from slice 3
Icke, Nick> perform a label back to disk
Icke, Nick> 3 Remount slice 1 and run newfs
Icke, Nick> 4. Restore from step 1
Icke, Nick> 5. remove slice 3 from vfstab
Icke, Nick> Questions
Icke, Nick> a. Is this the correct method and am I missing anything
Icke, Nick> b. slices 0,4,5 etc contain data, will this be lost during this process
Icke, Nick> Ta
Icke, Nick> Nick
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