10-14-2009
I would also suggest that you document some stuff:
Look in /dev for items hd* to see what you have for hard drives defined. Should be HD10 through HD1a and a similar set for 2nd and higher drives.
Run divvy on one section of every hard drive you have identified and document the information.
This information may be vital if you end up having to reinstall.
Once in single user you can run mkdev fs to remove other than the required filesystems of root, boot, and swap. They can be added back later, after you have resolved the multiuser issues.
Although JGT suggested that you try for 10mb free I've worked with systems with as little as 1K free while resolving problems. But I was prepared to floppy boot to get access to clean, if needed.
From single user does mkdev fd work? Would give some assurance that you could get back in if something goes "bump".
Don't understand the boot menuing but would be curious about using init from SU mode. Something like init 6 which should lead to multi IIRC.
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
devinfo
devinfo(1M) System Administration Commands devinfo(1M)
NAME
devinfo - print device specific information
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/devinfo -i device
/usr/sbin/devinfo -p device
DESCRIPTION
The devinfo command is used to print device specific information about disk devices on standard out. The command can only be used by the
superuser.
OPTIONS
-i Prints the following device information:
o Device name
o Software version (not supported and prints as 0)
o Drive id number (not supported and prints as 0)
o Device blocks per cylinder
o Device bytes per block
o Number of device partitions with a block size greater than zero
-p Prints the following device partition information:
o Device name
o Device major and minor numbers (in hexadecimal)
o Partition start block
o Number of blocks allocated to the partition
o Partition flag
o Partition tag
This command is used by various other commands to obtain device specific information for the making of file systems and determining parti-
tion information. If the device cannot be opened, an error message is reported.
OPERANDS
device Device name.
EXIT STATUS
0 Successful operation.
2 Operation failed.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
prtvtoc(1M), attributes(5)
SunOS 5.10 8 May 1997 devinfo(1M)