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by **Chris O'Reg** » Sun, 19 Apr 1998 04:00:00

I have a mirrored filesystem that I want to grow from six* gigabytes to
twenty. My plan is to bring down one half of the mirror so that I can add a
four-gigabyte disk to the concatenation. Then I will re-establish the
mirror and wait for the data to resynchronize. Once that succeeds, I will
bring down the other half and do the same.

Will this work? The mirrored filesystem is for homes. I do not mind
rebooting a couple of times, but I cannot afford to be down for the time it
would take to backup the six* gigabyte filesystem and restore to the
twenty.

Thanks,

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by **Mike Mill** » Tue, 21 Apr 1998 04:00:00

>Will this work? The mirrored filesystem is for homes. I do not mind
>rebooting a couple of times, but I cannot afford to be down for the time it
>would take to backup the six* gigabyte filesystem and restore to the
>twenty.

Which volume manager are you using? Is the disk physically in place
now? The Veritas volume manager allows you to do this easily. Just
have the available drive space in place and then resize the file
system.
Mike Miller

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