SUMMARY: Logical Volume Manager for Solaris 2.5.1

Nibby, Dana (Nibby@volpe.dot.gov)
Thu, 19 Feb 1998 11:07:45 -0500

Thanks to:

Jonathan Detert [jcdetert@charity.mke.ra.rockwell.com]
gibian@stars1.hanscom.af.mil
Mark Baldwin [mark.baldwin@aur.alcatel.com]
kcolagio@wc.eso.mc.xerox.com
Mr.Venkat D [venki21@hotmail.com]
Mark Spooner [mark.spooner@central.sun.com]
Darryl V. Pace [dpace@tacticsus.com]
David Thorburn-Gundlach [david@bae.uga.edu]
anders@hmi.de
merk@faw.uni-ulm.de
Plesha, Thomas A. (NSLC Pacific) [tplesha@nslcpacific.navy.mil]
Dan Brainard [brainard@ihs.com]
Mike Youngberg [mikey@synacom.com]
James Hutchinson [lsharp@taz.hutch.org]
Steve Belcher [slb9694@earthlink.net]
David Harte [david.harte@hos.horizon.ie]
Ronald Loftin [reloftin@mailbox.syr.edu]

And to any other replies coming in.

phew!

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My question was:

Does Solaris 2.5.1 have a logical volume manner, or any other utility
for making a filesystem span more than one
physical drive? One a drive is in use, is there any easy way to
dynamically extend a filesystem on it to include
another drive? Thanks.

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Answer is:

There's a separate CD-ROM called "Solstice DiskSuite" which will do
the job - also, "Veritas Volume Manager".
Overall, respondents seem to prefer Veritas to DiskSuite. DiskSuite
comes free with the 2.6 Solaris distribution;
not sure about 2.5.1. Off I go to hunt for the CDs!

- Dana