Solaris

Please provide details and the precise steps you followed. Especially explain what you mean with "labeling this slice" and what commands you ran.

You cannot easily grow a file system if the underlying slice/partition isn't already managed by a volume manager.

What you can probably do is simply create a new file system on your new disk and mount it to the location where your new software will install itself.

jlliagre - yea... i know. for some reason i was thinking "tag" and not disk label. and even that doesn't really matter. i was thinking he might have a conflict with some names so i just suggested use another name.

anyway...

so by the looks of your output, you have already labeled your disk.

it's failing because it's expecting yes/no response from you.

EmbedUX,

your confusion is that /opt has nothing to do with the formatting of the disk or where it get mounted. /opt is just a directory onto which a disk or disk slice is mounted.

As Pupp already stated, you are getting stuck at the point where you need to reply "yes" or "no", and you are replying with "opt".

Once you have your new slice, /opt is not going to "grow" on its own. You'll need to either mount your new slice somewhere inside /opt and start using that directory to store data, or use Sun Volume Manager to concatenate the old slice mounted in /opt with your new slice you just created.