Growing a VRTS Volume in Solaris

If you ever have to grow a Veritas Volume in Solaris, this could be a nerve racking task if you have not done it before. Especially if this is your first time or a production server.

The process is quite simple. However, you want to make sure that the volume is not at 99% or greater in capacity. This could lead to a deadlock situation.

In this example I demonstrate a Solaris 10 server with a zone called testzone which has a filesystem presented to it mounted in the zone as /test1. The filesystem is at 96% and I need to grow it before I run out of space.

The video walks you through all the steps I took to add an additional 300 MB of disk space to this filesystem.

Enjoy.