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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Re-allocating hard drive space Post 95097 by RTM on Friday 6th of January 2006 10:44:10 AM
Old 01-06-2006
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Filesystem            kbytes    used   avail capacity  Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0    14453787 14171725  137525   100%    /
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s3    98869370   65553 97815124     1%    /space

It seems that the only two partitions you have on c0t0d0 are / and /space.
You would have to double check this in the format utility. There are times when database software can use a partition (raw) and it won't show up on a df command output.

If these are the only two partitions being used, then you can do a couple of things:
1. Move complete directories from / to /space and link
Example: Move /opt/application to /space/application - do this while application is shut down (single user mode is best)
# cd /opt
# tar cf /space/application.tar ./application
# cd /space
# tar xpf /space/application.tar
Check that permissions, ownership, group is all correct
# cd /opt
# rm -r ./application
# ln -s /space/application ./application
Bring up application - have client check that it works - then delete /space/application.tar (if the move messes up the application, then you need this file to put it back into /opt)

2. Remove applications and reinstall in /space

3. Rebuild server with better partiton sizes

4. Look for the directories under / that are using up the space - could be applications, could be home directories, etc. Cut up /space partition into new partitons (again, I stress that other partitons need to be checked that they are not being used via the format command) such as /export/home (if that is where the home directories are located and are so huge that they should be moved)
Use format command to remove 10GB from /space and put it into an un-used partiton (let's say slice 4). newfs /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s4. Mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s4 to temporary directory (such as /mnt). Tar /export/home to file and extract to /mnt (see steps above). Rename /export/home to /export/oldhome. Unmount /mnt (umount /mnt), fsck /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s4, and mount as new /export/home (mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s4 /export/home). Once you have this working, then you have two more steps. Add new mount of /export/home to /etc/vfstab and remove /export/oldhome.

Look up these types of moves at sunsolve.sun.com or docs.sun.com to verify these steps.
 

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hdio(7I)							  Ioctl Requests							  hdio(7I)

NAME
hdio - SMD and IPI disk control operations SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/hdio.h> DESCRIPTION
Note - The SMC and IPI drivers have been discontinued. dkio(7I) is now the preferred method for retrieving disk information. The SMD and IPI disk drivers supplied with this release support a set of ioctl(2) requests for diagnostics and bad sector information. Basic to these ioctl() requests are the definitions in <sys/hdio.h>. IOCTLS
HDKIOCGTYPE The argument is a pointer to a hdk_type structure (described below). This ioctl() gets specific information from the hard disk. HDKIOCSTYPE The argument is a pointer to a hdk_type structure (described below). This ioctl() sets specific information about the hard disk. /* * Used for drive info */ struct hdk_type { ushort_t hdkt_hsect; /* hard sector count (read only) */ ushort_t hdkt_promrev; /* prom revision (read only) */ uchar_t hdkt_drtype; /* drive type (ctlr specific) */ uchar_t hdkt_drstat; /* drive status (ctlr specific, ro) */ }; HDKIOCGBAD The argument is a pointer to a hdk_badmap structure (described below). This ioctl() is used to get the bad sector map from the disk. HDKIOCSBAD The argument is a pointer to a hdk_badmap structure (described below). This ioctl() is used to set the bad sector map on the disk. /* * Used for bad sector map */ struct hdk_badmap { caddr_t hdkb_bufaddr; /* address of user's map buffer */ }; HDKIOCGDIAG The argument is a pointer to a hdk_diag structure (described below). This ioctl() gets the most recent command that failed along with the sector and error number from the hard disk. /* * Used for disk diagnostics */ struct hdk_diag { ushort_t hdkd_errcmd; /* most recent command in error */ daddr_t hdkd_errsect; /* most recent sector in error */ uchar_t hdkd_errno; /* most recent error number */ uchar_t hdkd_severe; /* severity of most recent error */ }; SEE ALSO
ioctl(2), dkio(7I) SunOS 5.10 13 Aug 2002 hdio(7I)
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