Solaris: How to Resize a Swap Partition….on a disk without any free slices

First lets detach the swap partition (submirror) on the secondary disk. Where d1 is the metadevice and d21 is the submirror

#metadetach d1 d21
d1: submirror d21 is detached

metaclear d21
d21: Concat/Stripe is cleared

Now lets format Secondary Disk (c1t1d1 in this example)

Below is the partition table of the disk that I am working with. Slice one will be resized using unallocated disk space. Add 1 to the last cylinder of slice 7 to determine your starting cylinder. In this case my new starting cylinder is 2691.

Total disk cylinders available: 14087 + 2 (reserved cylinders)
Part Tag Flag Cylinders Size Blocks
0 root wm 0 - 824 4.00GB (825/0/0) 8395200
1 swap wu 825 - 1031 1.00GB (207/0/0) 2106432
2 backup wm 0 - 14086 68.35GB (14087/0/0) 143349312
3 unassigned wm 1032 - 1038 34.78MB (7/0/0) 71232
4 var wm 1039 - 1657 3.00GB (619/0/0) 6298944
5 home wm 1658 - 2070 2.00GB (413/0/0) 4202688
6 stand wm 2071 - 2277 1.00GB (207/0/0) 2106432
7 stand wm 2278 - 2690 2.00GB (413/0/0) 4202688

Now resize the partition
In this case I am going to use the rest of the disk, which according to the information for partition two, ends @ cylinder 14087. Subtract 2691 from 14087, to determine how many cylinders your slice is going to be.

Enter partition id tag[swap]:
Enter partition permission flags[wu]:
Enter new starting cyl[825]: 2691
Enter partition size[2106432b, 207c, 1028.53mb, 1.00gb]: 11396c

Now save this new partition scheme

Enter table name (remember quotes): my_table

Then label your disk. As you can see below, my swap partition is now huge.

Part Tag Flag Cylinders Size Blocks
0 root wm 0 - 824 4.00GB (825/0/0) 8395200
1 swap wu 2691 - 14086 55.30GB (11396/0/0) 115965696
2 backup wm 0 - 14086 68.35GB (14087/0/0) 143349312
3 unassigned wm 1032 - 1038 34.78MB (7/0/0) 71232
4 var wm 1039 - 1657 3.00GB (619/0/0) 6298944
5 home wm 1658 - 2070 2.00GB (413/0/0) 4202688
6 stand wm 2071 - 2277 1.00GB (207/0/0) 2106432
7 stand wm 2278 - 2690 2.00GB (413/0/0) 4202688
Now lets Swap the Swap


First, reinitialize swap submirror.
metainit d21
d21: Concat/Stripe is setup

Add swap to new submirror

\swap -a /dev/md/dsk/d21

View swap

swap -l
swapfile dev swaplo blocks free
/dev/md/dsk/d1 85,1 16 2106416 2106416
/dev/md/dsk/d21 85,21 16 115965680 115965680

Remove the metadevice from swap

swap -d /dev/md/dsk/d1

Verify that previous step worked

swap -l
swapfile dev swaplo blocks free
/dev/md/dsk/d21 85,21 16 115965680 115965680

Clear Metadevice/Mirror

metaclear d1
Mirror is cleared
Clear Metadevice/submirror
metaclear d11
d11: Concat/Stripe is cleared

Format Primary Disk (c1t1d0 in this example)

Select a predefined table

partition> select
0. original
1. my_table
Specify table (enter its number)[0]: 1
View the partition table, and make sure it looks right.
Total disk cylinders available: 14087 + 2 (reserved cylinders)

Part Tag Flag Cylinders Size Blocks
0 root wm 0 - 824 4.00GB (825/0/0) 8395200
1 swap wu 2691 - 14086 55.30GB (11396/0/0) 115965696
2 backup wm 0 - 14086 68.35GB (14087/0/0) 143349312
3 unassigned wm 1032 - 1038 34.78MB (7/0/0) 71232
4 var wm 1039 - 1657 3.00GB (619/0/0) 6298944
5 home wm 1658 - 2070 2.00GB (413/0/0) 4202688
6 stand wm 2071 - 2277 1.00GB (207/0/0) 2106432
7 stand wm 2278 - 2690 2.00GB (413/0/0) 4202688

Label disk
partition> label
Ready to label disk, continue? y

Put things back the way they were.

Reinitialize the swap submirror on the primary disk

metainit d11
d11: Concat/Stripe is setup

Reinitialize Metadevice Mirror

metainit d1
d1: Mirror is setup

Add the metadevice to swap
swap -a /dev/md/dsk/d1

… and verify that it took

swap -l
swapfile dev swaplo blocks free
/dev/md/dsk/d21 85,21 16 115965680 115965680
/dev/md/dsk/d1 85,1 16 115965680 115965680

Remove the submirror that you added to swap in the step above

swap -d /dev/md/dsk/d21

Reattach Submirror d21 to Mirror d1

metattach d1 d21
d1: submirror d21 is attached

Redefine dump device

dumpadm -d swap
Dump content: kernel pages
Dump device: /dev/md/dsk/d1 (swap)
Savecore directory: /var/crash/blahblah
Savecore enabled: yes

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