SUMMARY - Partition resize
2007-12-24 19:14:00
THANKS TO ALL
Most answers are telling that take a backup
and repartition it. Some other solution are
Answer from Gerard Henry <Gerard.Henry at gyptis.univ-mrs.fr> :
i read in "Advanced Installation Guide" that solaris can increase a
partition (perhaps like fips) if you have "fre hogs" i.e. free space on
your disk try to use format and see if you have free partition
good luck
Answer from "Bunter, Matthew" <Matthew.Bunter at cwcom.co.uk> :
Make a link /usr/local to /home/usr/local this will pipe anything that
wants to goto /usr partition to the /home partition.
Makes the disk less tidy but works if you don't want to repartition.
How hard would it be to add another disk?
matt
Answer from David Foster <foster at pinwheel.ucsd.edu> :
Solaris 8 installation is smart enough to re-partition your drive, if
there is a spare partition big enough to store the backed-up partitions
(usually there is, the swap partition).
My recommendation would be to back up anything you need to
keep, like /home, make a backup of /etc since you may need some
of that info when you install Solaris 8, and then go ahead and
do an "Initial" installation of Solaris 8, repartitioning the
drives manually (don't accept the defaults, they suck!). I would
also recommend just having /, /home and swap (no need to separate
/ and /usr, though some like to separate / and /var to guard against
denial of service attacks since some dirs in /var have world write
permissions).
Hope this helps.
BTW, there is a way to increase the space in /usr by taking some
of /home, assuming that these partitions are next to each-other
on the disk. This uses the 'format' command, and the 'partition'
option. This is a bit tricky, and requires that you back up /home
anyway, so it's probably more worth your time to just go with my
recommendation above.
Dave Foster
I search a lot and found that Solaris 8 can resize the partition.
How we can do this is written in the book
"ADVANCED INSTALLATION GUIDE"
on the pages 54 and 173 ( english version )
which comes with solaris 8 bundle. It says by making a profile
and specifying some layout_constraint it will resize the partition
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Shailendra Trivedi
IPR
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