How to grow a volume and UFS filesystem

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Grow volume:

# vxassist -g diskgroup growby 3g

Get updated volume size

# vxprint -htq myvol

Disk group: mydg

v  myvol        -            ENABLED  ACTIVE   10485760 SELECT    -        fsgen
pl myvol-01     myvol        ENABLED  ACTIVE   10485760 CONCAT    -        RW
sd disk1-01     myvol-01     disk1    0        4400896  0         sun35100_1 ENA
sd disk2-01     myvol-01     disk2    0        4399120  4400896   sun35100_2 ENA
sd disk3-01     myvol-01     disk3    0        1685744  8800016   sun35100_3 ENA
   

The new volume size is 10485760 sectors.

Grow UFS filesystem

Be sure to use complete path to mkfs as opposed to the default one.

Failure to do so can and will result in data loss:

/usr/lib/fs/ufs/mkfs -M /myfs /dev/vx/rdsk/mydg/myvol 10485760

 

Applies To

InfoScale8.0 for Solaris11.4

Issue/Introduction

How to grow a volume and UFS filesystem.