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Resizing VxFS

Posted on March 30th, 2010

Very handy feature of vxfs is an ability to dynamically shrink or expand the file system.

bash-3.00#  df -h /oracle/PRD/sapdata2
Filesystem             size   used  avail capacity  Mounted on
/dev/vx/dsk/oradg/sapdata2
                        14G   5.9G   7.6G    44%    /oracle/PRD/sapdata2
bash-3.00# /etc/vx/bin/vxresize -g oradg sapdata2 +4g
bash-3.00#  df -h /oracle/PRD/sapdata2
Filesystem             size   used  avail capacity  Mounted on
/dev/vx/dsk/oradg/sapdata2
                        18G   5.9G    11G    35%    /oracle/PRD/sapdata2
bash-3.00# /etc/vx/bin/vxresize -g oradg sapdata2 -2g
bash-3.00#  df -h /oracle/PRD/sapdata2
Filesystem             size   used  avail capacity  Mounted on
/dev/vx/dsk/oradg/sapdata2
                        16G   5.9G   9.5G    39%    /oracle/PRD/sapdata2
bash-3.00#

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