If you have installed the LVM Logical Volume Manager on the root disk drive of your HP-UX 10.X system, you can use it to dynamically extend the size of a given file system. Here are some step by step instructions. Please see the individual man pages on each command for more information. Procedure for using LVM to extend an existing file system. You must be user root to perform these steps.
Free Space Check the current volume group for the amount of free space in the volume group.
Use bdf to see a list of all your volume groups and logical volumes. You may use any free PE's to extend a file system. If you do not have any free PE's, you will need to create some. You can create free PE's by reducing the number of PE's in an existing logical volume, or by removing a logical volume entirely. Change directories to another directory outside the logical volume.