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I'm setting up UFS mirroring using SVM, and I need to add a partition to the existing disk for the metadb before prtvtoc'ing the partition table over to the new drive. I've been doing this so far (in a virtual testbed environment) by rebooting and going into failsafe mode to repartition - which leads me to a couple of questions:
- What's the best way of repartitioning 'safely'? That is, at the moment I'm resizing an empty home partition, so there's no risk of it breaking data. I presume that if that partition was full, it would still let me repartition, and thus lead to corrupt data.
- Is there any way to get into that failsafe mode without rebooting/having to be sat at the console? I'm working on this stack remotely and would ideally like to avoid having to visit the datacenter.
Also, whilst I'm here - anyone any opinions on the best way to back up UFS partitions/entire disks under Solaris? Currently looking at flarcreate
Cheers.
- What's the best way of repartitioning 'safely'? That is, at the moment I'm resizing an empty home partition, so there's no risk of it breaking data. I presume that if that partition was full, it would still let me repartition, and thus lead to corrupt data.
- Is there any way to get into that failsafe mode without rebooting/having to be sat at the console? I'm working on this stack remotely and would ideally like to avoid having to visit the datacenter.
Also, whilst I'm here - anyone any opinions on the best way to back up UFS partitions/entire disks under Solaris? Currently looking at flarcreate

Cheers.