You should allocate to one disk slice and just not use it.
Btw, if you can get a downtime to do the upgrade, I suggest you to break mirror, change the boot disk to raw disk and boot cdrom to install, choosing "Upgrade Install"(personally tried it with success, even from Solaris 8 to 10) https://www.unix.com/he/sun-solaris/1...302328648.html
For future Live Upgrades on your Solaris 10 OS, you should have a FREE slice like the following example (uses SVM for root disk ; capacity 146GB) output:-
Last edited by incredible; 03-06-2010 at 04:01 AM..
I everybody!!
How can i use statvfs() to calculate disk usage and free disk space??
Im using this code:
/* Any file on the filesystem in question */
char *filename = "/home/nesto/test/test.cpp";
struct statvfs buf;
if (!statvfs(filename, &buf)) {
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Hello,
I would like to free some space to install gcc with is about 50M large, and I have no free space on my system. What can I delete?
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Free %Used Iused Ifree %Iused Mounted on
/dev/hd4 262144 145436 116708 56% 7981 ... (10 Replies)
I'm just learning shell scripting and am new to Unix/Linux. For the past week I've been logging how much free mem is on my server by using the
'$ top' command, and the free disk space in a few directories by doing
'$ df -h'.
It sucks doing that every hour. Can you help me write a script... (2 Replies)
Hi
I am unable to understand the disk layout of one of my disk attached to v240. This is newly installed system from jumpstart.
I am unable to see the free space on backup slice 2 and there are 0 to 8 slices listed when I run format and print the disk info, also there is no reference of... (9 Replies)
Hi,
I would like to create the new file system(mount point) in our unix server.
before that i would like to know the total free space available in /home directory.
Can you please let me know, how to find free space available for new filesystem?
Be careful with your spelling and... (2 Replies)
Version: Solaris 10 (August 2011) on VM
I am kind of new to Solaris.From VM workstation i allocated 35 GB to this Solaris VM's Disk
The disk was named
c1t0d0
Few basic slices for root(8gb), swap(517mb) and /export/home(494mb) were created by the solaris Installer during the... (18 Replies)
Hi,
I installed RHEL 6.0 OS on vmware with CREATE CUSTOM LAYOUT option. And I gave the space to different mount points as mentioned below:
/ 15360MB
/boot 200MB
/tmp 3072 MB
swap 1024 MB
fdisk -cul command shows the disk size as 64.4 GB. But when I try to create partion of 10 GB with... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I need about 500G space in one corporate solaris server.
However, I am not sure which command to use to check this.
There are few volume groups in the server, and I deleted unused, old volume groups to clear some space.
However, now I am not sure how to check the free space itself.
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LEARN ABOUT LINUX
suninstall
suninstall(1M) System Administration Commands suninstall(1M)NAME
suninstall - install the Solaris operating system
SYNOPSIS
suninstall
DESCRIPTION install-solaris(1M) is now the preferred command for starting and restarting the Solaris Installation program. It should be used instead of
suninstall. suninstall is symbolically linked to install-solaris.
suninstall is a forms-based and graphical subsystem for installing the operating system.
suninstall exists only on the Solaris installation media (CD or DVD) and should only be invoked from there. Refer to the Solaris 10 Instal-
lation Guide: Basic Installations for more details.
suninstall allows installation of the operating system onto any standalone system. suninstall loads the software available on the installa-
tion media. Refer to the Solaris 10 Installation Guide: Basic Installations for disk space requirements.
USAGE
Refer to the Solaris 10 Installation Guide: Basic Installations for more information on the various menus and selections.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcdrom (Solaris instal- |
| |lation media) |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO pkginfo(1), install(1M), install-solaris(1M), pkgadd(1M), attributes(5)
Solaris 10 Installation Guide: Basic Installations
NOTES
It is advisable to exit suninstall by means of the exit options in the suninstall menus.
SunOS 5.10 9 Sep 2004 suninstall(1M)