Adding Disk Space to an Existing Diskset (With Solaris 9 OS)

Adding Disk Space to an Existing Diskset (With Solaris 9 OS)

January, 2008

This procedure provides steps for adding a LUN to an existing diskset in a cluster environment and then growing the logical volume.

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  1. Jan 15, 2008

    insert_screen_name_here says:

    IMPORTANT NOTE:  Stop all database/application writes to the affected files...

    IMPORTANT NOTE:  Stop all database/application writes to the affected filesystem BEFORE issuing the growfs command.  The growfs command issues a momentary 'lockfs' while it is expanding the filesystem.  Any DB/application writes will be blocked during that brief time.  Any DB or app that is especially busy may stop working if it is sensitive to such a stoppage.

    1. Jan 29, 2008

      @Karan@ says:

      The above comment is appropriate to the procedure mentioned in the article. Plea...

      The above comment is appropriate to the procedure mentioned in the article. Please go through this as a part of the procedure, to stop the database/application running on the particular filesystem before issuing the growfs command.

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