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- From: mhl@genco.bungi.com (Mark Levy)
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- Subject: Moving /dev/swap to a different drive
- Keywords: swap SCO unix
- Message-ID: <119@genco.bungi.com>
- Date: 10 Jan 93 00:53:13 GMT
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- Organization: Gentry & Assoc. Excelsior Springs, Mo.
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- Something that I just ran into this morning is a problem on a UNIX MP
- system where the client is running out of space on the root fs. They are
- nominally configured to run at 50% capacity with a 90 MB fs. The problem
- is that they managed to spool 38MB of print jobs! This would normally
- be _NO_ problem whatsoever using CTAR. Just backup, reconfigure, and
- restore. The problem is that they are runnign Advanced Pick for SCO,
- which uses a NON-UNIX pick filesystem (850 MB), and it takes about 6 hours
- to do a complete pick backup, and another 7 to restore, not counting the
- time to reinstall it (even dd won't work properly). what I want to do is
- remove the 90MB swap device from the primary disk, and move it to the
- secondary disk, adding the 90MB to the root fs capacity. I think I can
- do it, but I'm not sure, and that's the reason for this post. In this
- case, after running divvy -m on the primary and secondary drives, I think
- I would just use the swap -a command to add a swap dev to the second
- drive, and then modify the defbootstr with hd(40)unix root=hd(40) swap=hd(XXX),
- where XXX is the minor dev number of the new swap device. Is that all
- there is to it? I don't think that I should run divvy -i, since I don't
- want to touch the pick file system. Afterwards, I think I need to run
- mkfs on /dev/root. Am I going about this the right way? Are there any
- problems with moving the swap device to a secondary disk?
-
- The system is configured as follows:
- DEC 433MP, 64 MB Ram
- DPT 2012B/90 SCSI HA, Dual mirrored Micropolis 1598, DEC (connor) 200 MB HD
- (secondary drive), Archive ST-250, WangDat 1300XL
- SCO UNIX v3.2.4.1 (installed 4.1 Maint Sup.)
-
- Thanks in advance,
-
- Mark
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