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Hard drive resize on Novell 3.12!
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JockMullin
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Hi, Danny
It's not easily done, since Novell 3 only supports one partition per drive.
If possible, just add the bigger drive to the machine and then allocate a Novell partition there and then you can either expand existing volumes onto it or preferably allocate new volume(s) over there.
If not, then you either:
- use a third party program like server magic to expand the Novell partition
OR
- back up the existing partition completely using a Novell-aware backup program, delete the partition and reallocate it and then restore. Novell aware means it will back up and restore rights and ownership, bindery (if SYS) etc.
If the volume in question is SYS, consider carefully if you will have enough memory to mount the expanded volume using the current block size. If you can't then the server will be dead. Consider allocating separate volumes and moving application files over there, leaving SYS for just the OS and spoolers etc. I personally never span sys over multiple drives except in a RAID configuration.
Jock
It's not easily done, since Novell 3 only supports one partition per drive.
If possible, just add the bigger drive to the machine and then allocate a Novell partition there and then you can either expand existing volumes onto it or preferably allocate new volume(s) over there.
If not, then you either:
- use a third party program like server magic to expand the Novell partition
OR
- back up the existing partition completely using a Novell-aware backup program, delete the partition and reallocate it and then restore. Novell aware means it will back up and restore rights and ownership, bindery (if SYS) etc.
If the volume in question is SYS, consider carefully if you will have enough memory to mount the expanded volume using the current block size. If you can't then the server will be dead. Consider allocating separate volumes and moving application files over there, leaving SYS for just the OS and spoolers etc. I personally never span sys over multiple drives except in a RAID configuration.
Jock
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