partition tables – Running Systems

Reduce Oracle ASM disk size

Byetzion 21/01/202021/01/2020

I have had a system with Oracle ASM diskgroup from which I needed some space. The idea was to release some disk space, reduce the size of existing partitions, add a new partition and use it – all online(!) This is a grocery list of tasks to do, with some explanation integrated into it. Overview…

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Preperation of recovery server for RPM based systems

Byetzion 23/07/2007

On most cases, when preparing a recovery server, you can just ‘tar’ the entire server’s contents and just move it, along with a short recipe on how to rebuild the original partition layout (software Raid? LVM? flat partition tables?), how to mount volumes in-place, how to extract the tar files into the right locations, and…