Migrating solaris 10 to larger hard disk

Hi all,
I not sure if the word "migrating" should be used. Here is the case, we have a blade server which only have 2 local slot for hdd which is already occupied. The hdd is mirrored using hardware raid. Recently we encountered insufficient disk space and was thinking to increase the disk space. Somehow external storage is not an option here. The management bought two larger size hard disk and questioning if we can migrate/clone the running production OS to this new larger hard disk. The filesystem used is UFS and it is x86 machine. Please advise if it can be done using UFSdump. If yes, how about the partition size issue? Will it expanded? TQVM.

Checked with the hardware engineer and they confirm that the RAID can be synced one by one without breaking it. Means, we can take out hdd2 while hdd1 still in the server with RAID1. Then we put in hdd3 (new larger size hdd) and let it sync. After that repeat the steps with hdd1 > hdd4. I found the command growfs can expand the mountpoint. Can anyone share any foresee concerns and is it workable?

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Hi,
which steps do I have to follow to migrate to a bigger hard disk?
My question concerns the steps to conserve and restore the operating system and Lenovo's ThinkVantage applications. Is it possible to use an external USB hard disk to create an image of the built-in disk?
I suppose that this is a frequently asked question.
I have a T61, product id is 6457WFV.

Gerhard, as wjli2 suggested, the easiest way to move to the larger HDD is to just create your own set of recovery media (onto a USB drive). Then remove the old drive, insert the new drive, and boot from the USB drive where you created the recovery.
To create your rescue media, do the following:
1. Click Start > All Programs > ThinkVantage > Create Recovery Media. In the rescue media area, mark the appropriate radio button for the type of media you will use. You can create rescue media using a CD, USB hard drive, or an internal hard drive.
Notes:
If you choose to create rescue media on either a USB hard drive or an internal hard drive, then the drive must have 500 MB of available storage, contain either a FAT32 or NTFS file system format, and have been created using a Windows partitioning utility. Rescue media is created only in the first primary partition on a drive. If a primary partition does not exist, one will be created. Rescue media cannot be created on an extended or logical partition.
2. Select a target drive, if necessary.
3. Mark the Do not destroy existing data check box if you want to make the existing partition bootable
and preserve the contents of that partition. Click OK.
4. Select a recordable drive from the drop-down menu and click OK.
Note: Only available, recordable drives are listed in this menu.
5. Insert a blank or erasable disc and click OK. A progress bar is displayed. This process will take some time. Follow the on-screen instructions.

I need a larger hard disk for my mac book pro

Hi my mac Book pro 2.53GHz 13' needs a larger hard disk do you have any suggestion? I'm thinking about a 750/1T but which brand/model works great? I do music production.
L

For music production, you'll probably want a 7200RPM drive, and all the current 1TB units are 5200 or 5400RPM. Consider the 750GB 7200RPM Seagate:
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Seagate/ST9750420AS/

Time Machine backup created on Mac with a large hard disk. What happens when restore to MacBook Air with small SSD drive?

What if a Time Machine backup was created on a Mac with a large hard disk, e.g. 500GB iMac - and I buy a new MacBook Air with a small SSD hard disk e.g 128GB. What happens when I need to use the larger Time Machine file to set up the new MacBook Air? What happens to all those files that can't fit on the smaller SSD drive?

It is not the HD size, but rather the size of the data it contains. If you right-click your 500GB drive and select "Get Info" you can see how much is actually being used.
Naturally if you are using more space than the new drive has, then you have to make some choices about what you want to keep and what you want to keep archived.
I don't know what options are available but you may simply have to do a manual restore of files you want, in groups.

How does one SUCCESSFULLY transfer Time-Machine backup to a new (larger) hard disk drive using OSX 10.5.8

I have read a number of articles about how to transfer a complete Time-Machine backup to a new (larger) hard disk-drive. Some of these articles are specifically for OSX10.6 users, which are not applicable to me since I am operating with OSX 10.5.8.
However, I have tried several times to use the Disk Utility 'Restore' function, dragging my old time-machine volume into the 'Source:' box and my new volume into the 'Destination:' box. This works, of sorts, BUT the newly created volume on the new larger hard disk-drive remains the same size as the original volume on the old Time-Machine HDD, with no apparent way of increasing the new volume's size. So I am not really any better off:
E.g. the total capacity of my new HDD is stated by 'Disk Utility' to be 465.8 GB, of which I'm told 228.2 GB is used for the Backups.backdb folder, but only 4.6 GB of free space is actually available. Yet under the 'Partition' tab of 'Disk Utility' it tells me that there is still 236.4 GB of available space.
Does anyone know how to resolve this issue without upgrading to OSX 10.6?

First, how did you prepare your new drive? See:
Drive Preparation
1. Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder. If you need to reformat your startup volume, then you must boot from your OS X Installer Disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu.
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area. If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing. SMART info will not be reported on external drives. Otherwise, click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID (for Intel Macs) or APM (for PPC Macs) then click on the OK button. Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
4. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
5. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
6. Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to several hours depending upon the drive size.
If you plan to partition this new drive then be sure you create a larger partition for TM than your old volume.
Next, clone your old TM volume:
Clone using Restore Option of Disk Utility
1. Open Disk Utility from the Utilities folder.
2. Select the destination volume from the left side list.
3. Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
4.Check the box labeled Erase destination.
5. Select the destination volume from the left side list and drag it to the Destination entry field.
6. Select the source volume from the left side list and drag it to the Source entry field.
7. Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
Destination means the external backup drive. Source means the internal startup drive.

Supported way to migrate to larger hard disk

I am a happy, no exctatic owner of a Macbook Pro 15 inch 2.6, purchased in December 2012.
The 750 GB hard disk is a bit tight.
So I'm looking at getting a 1.5 TB drive and migrating to it.
I don't want to lose my restore partion or anything else I've already done.
How should I go about it?
I have thought of using:
Carbon Copy for Mac
Clonezilla
Booting a Live CD Linux and using dd
Anyone done what I'm trying to do?
Configuration:
Main boot is Mac with refit add in to manage boots.
200 MB for Mac boot
200 MB for bootcamp Windows
The rest of the drive is allocated for Centos 6.4 I use grub as the boot manager for centos and windows.
Hope this is enough.

Mine looks exactly like yours.
What I'm hoping to clone is the entire hard disk.
I've followed CCC guidelines and set up a recovery partition and copied the Mac OS parition.
I was hoping to copy bootcamp and centos across as well, but so far no luck.
Though I know bootcamp and the centos stuff are accessible in other ways.
I could just as easily boot centos and use dd to do the job here. Partition up the new disk before hand using the apple disk tool and dd parition by parition using centos. Seems like an awful lot of work though.
Since Mac OS is open source based, I assume I could do this job with dd running under the main OS. Problem there is fdisk works a little differently.
I know i can if successfully clone non Mac paritions either before or after the disk switch. I'm a Unix/Linux geek after all.
Thanks for all the good input.

How to install Solaris 8 from Hard disk?

Hi.
Im downloading Solaris 8 from a free FTP server. Some body can explain me what i need to install Solaris 8 from my hard disk?

Well first if you are downloading the cd images to a non Solaris machine, they are ISO images that cd burning software and a cd burner will use to burn a bootable cd. After you create the cd's boot cd 1 of 2 and the install will begin. I read somewhere that if you download the images to a solaris machine you can mount the image as a CD and share it and then install directly from the image over a network. I am not too clear on exactly how that is done since I downloaded to W2K.
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How do I copy my time machine back up from a smaller Hard disk to a larger hard disk; so that I can then continue to back up, through Time machine, on the larger hard disk?

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Time Machine: How to transfer backups from the current backup drive to a new backup drive - Apple Support
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Installing solaris from the hard disk

i am new to solaris. i just wanna know is there a way of installing solaris from the hard drive

If you are new to Solaris I would advise you to stick to CD installations. Atleast in the beginning.
Having advised that, it is known that installing from cd can be a bit tricky is getting the install going.
Don't be supprised if your first attempt fails with disk-read errors. Try again.
More specific in relation to your question:
Solaris has many ways in which you can install the os, and from hardisk over the network to the machine to be installed is one of these possibities.
If you where thinking about doing the install from one partition to an other partition of the harddisk, that I am afraid I have to dissapoint you.
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Support for larger hard disks...?

just a question regarding hard disk compatibility...
i am planning to purchase a faster, much larger capacity hard disk, but i always think a lot regarding compatibility.
from my previous experience, i used a driver from a known hd company but unfortunately it ruined my old board. Now, i just have to be sure whether that hard disk that i will purchase will run in my system.
What are the things that i should know before i purchase a new one? (i am planning to purchase a 40Gb 7200 hard disk)

... so, what motherboard do you have, and what BIOS-version? I would be VERY surprised if your new HDD would NOT be supported, btw!
Hans

Large Hard disk

I am attempting to Install a Western Digital 45 GB Hard disk. It is only coming up in the format partition utility as 10.5 GB.
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The drive specs ar at.
http://www.wdc.com/products/drives/wd450aa.html
Any help appreciated.
Jon

Hi,
I saw the reply by Caryl Takorvian of Sun support about the IDE support.
I have a few comments I could add to this:
Running on a US10, Solaris 2.8,
I have been working at trying to integrate a WD 45 GB Caviar drive. This is a nice drive. Solaris initially identifies it as a 10 GB drive, and after having gone through numerous attempts to make format set the drive up to be correct size.
However, it looks like format is pretty broken. It makes me wonder whether anybody ever checks this s/w:
a) analyze really doesn't delete all the label information when you do a verify;
b) the label command in the partition sub command doesn't write a
new partition table on the disk. save doesn't do it either;
c) the format - verify command will only report the primary label, won't report backup labels
d) the save command doesn't write the new values to the disk;
e) you can create a new "type" that applies to the disk, but no command actually writes that command information to the disk;
f) format - format command says the disk isn't supported and you have to get a utility from the manufacturer (yeah, right);
g) when you are in partition and tell it to write the label, there is no other command to verify that it actually happened;
Maybe I am doing something wrong, so any suggestions would be appreciated!
Victor

Installing solaris on 2 hard disks (not raid or mirroring)

I'm installing solaris 10 but with 2 hard disk this time. Primary IDE is 20GB and secondary is 30 GB. I want to use both the disks for one solaris installation. That is i want to distribute my /, swap, /usr, /opt, /var etc. over the two hard disk, for example making swap, / and /var on the first hard drive and /opt, /usr and other slices on the 2nd hard disk.
During installation when i select the first drive to use for solaris it deselects the other and when i select the second disk it deselects the first one. Kindly help me out on this.

I'm not asking for the best solution because i
understand it depends on the use. I was asking for
basic reasoning or logic. For example what if i make
/ partition of 20GB and make /opt only 200MB? or
/export/home only 50MB and /usr 25GB? or /var only
10MB? Will more than 90% knowlegdable experienced
system administrators will agree to that kind of
partitioning scheme?This might sound nit picky but it's not meant that way, but!, who gets to decide what is & what is not a knowlegdable experienced system administrator? Unless I've worked with you I have no idea on your reasoning or how or why you do things. On the flip side, what if I'm the dufus admin then even though you're right I think you're wrong.
truth i never undestood the logic or reasoning on how
much space each partition should have according to
the size of the space avaiable as well as the use of
system.That's why these things end up being religious.
I understand that one must learn by experience but
doesn't one should make educated well reasoned
judgements even during learning phase?In this case I never went near that.
The installer gives you a set of parameters during an initial install. You CAN take it or leave it.
docs.sun.com gives you a default scheme which you can take it or leave it.
If you search around enough you can find the rationale to support any decision that you make.
In the next version of Solaris, ZFS is reportedly going to ship.
How does this affect your question?
With ZFS specified filesystems will pull from a common storage pool. As long as the pool has space, any partition that needs space from that pool will automatically get it.
Then threads like this one should start to fade into the past.
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