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Moving /usr/openv to different disk

Henson_D
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Hi Everyone,

We have a RHEL 5.5 Media Server with Tape Libraries attached to it and configured as FT Media Server. The disk space of that partition ran out resulting to unable to upgrade/patch it to 7.5.0.7. Is it possible to move/copy all the contents of /usr/openv to different disk to gain disk space? Are there any configurations that'll be affected?

 

Thank you in advance. Have a great day.

 

Best Regards,

Henson

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RamNagalla
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yes, you can ceate the softlink from the other file system having the enough space to /usr/openv and make use of it

if the /usr/openv is in volume manager, you can also increase the space of file system with the help of linux admin

please discuss with linux admin for the linking and file system expansion options..

 

you can also try some house keeping by deleting the log files and some old install files in /usr/openv/pack

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RamNagalla
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yes, you can ceate the softlink from the other file system having the enough space to /usr/openv and make use of it

if the /usr/openv is in volume manager, you can also increase the space of file system with the help of linux admin

please discuss with linux admin for the linking and file system expansion options..

 

you can also try some house keeping by deleting the log files and some old install files in /usr/openv/pack

Henson_D
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Thanks Nagalla,

 

The current /usr/openv is the local disk and doesn't belong to a volume manager that why we can't expand it.

What we're planning to do is to create a new disk then transfer all files to it. We will rename the original /usr/openv to /usr/openv_old. After copying all the files to the new disk we will mount it on a new /usr/openv.

 

Is it ok to do that?

 

Thanks,

Henson

Nicolai
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That will also work - done that myself manny times.

But as Nagalla mention Linux uses a Logical Volume Manger so the sysadmin may be able to online extend /usr/openv to a bigger size if space exist in the volume group.

RamNagalla
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Yes it will work...as I said alternate way is to go with soft links

Henson_D
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Thank you all for the reply. I'll try it then will get back to you as soon as possible.

 

Cheers!

Henson