Kids… DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME! If this is not done exactly right, you will render your system unbootable and corrupt your data. That being said, under some circumstances you can take some space from your swap partition and add it to an unused one without initializing your entire disk. This is particularly useful [...]
If you’ve ever gone to mirror a system drive with Solstice Disk suite, you know how frustrating it can be when you either don’t have any more slices to use for your meta database partitions, or all the space on the disk has already been allocated to existing partitions. While Disk Suite only requires one [...]
Never having been to Veritas Volume Manager training, I was feeling quite a bit of stress when my manager asked me to do a box upgrade on our most critical server. I remember wondering how in the world I was going to figure out the details of moving our Volume Manager configuration over the the [...]
UPDATED “Problems With Multiple MetaDB Partitions“
For some reason, it always seems that no two servers in the world have the same disk partition layout. For the longest time, I’d get a server in, lay out the partitions in a way that seemed to make sense to me at the time, and move on with my [...]
