I had Solaris 8 installed on a Ultra 10 machine but during a shutdown the root partition got corrupted. I have 3 other partitions on the drive (var, swap, home). Is there a way to reinstall the root partition without effecting the other partitions?
Also, when I run format from single user mode I... (4 Replies)
Dear all, How can we increase the space for the root partition, ensuring that there is no loss of data in Solaris 9. How can the growfs command be utilized in this case.
Thanks. (7 Replies)
Hi,
On one of our solaris servers, the root partition has filled up,(it was poorly sized in the first place), Does anyone have any advice about the best way to add space to a partition. I'm sure I've read how to do this somewhere before but just can't remember...:(
A colleague has suggested... (1 Reply)
I'm mirroring up a T2000. Able to metainit and metattach all partitions with the exception of root. Getting the following error:
metattach: <hostname>; c1t1d0s0; is mounted on /
I'm stumped. By the way, target 1 is the boot disk. (7 Replies)
i am using redhat 5.4 and my root size shows 98 %, how can i increase root size
# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 77G 16G 75G 98% /
/dev/sda1 2.4G 82M 2.2G 4% /boot
tmpfs 3.8G 0 3.8G 0%... (8 Replies)
I have a T1000 Sparc server that has a relatively small root partition which is 24Gb and a larger partition dedicated to /export/home that is approximately 100 Gb. We have a lot of data going to /var/audit and to /var/core/corefiles. Is there any non-destructive way to redirect files from... (4 Replies)
Hello guys,
I am using Solaris 10 x86 OS. While installing OS i have allocated entire 10 GB space to the root. Now i am not able to create new partition it says me "out of range" or "<cylinder number> not expected". Can someone please help me to allocated a default recommended space i.e 8GB or... (2 Replies)
Dear all ,
We have a root partition ( / ) in linux which has a very less space . And we need to increase the size of the root partition . There are no space in other file systems , so that i can take it from there and increase it.
Just wanted to know if we get some SAN space , can we... (2 Replies)
Dear All ,
We need to increase the size of the root partition in a RHEL server.
The model is Product Name: SUN FIRE X4170 SERVER.
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
119G 47G 67G 41% /... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: jegaraman
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LEARN ABOUT REDHAT
volfs
volfs(7FS) File Systems volfs(7FS)NAME
volfs - Volume Management file system
DESCRIPTION
volfs is the Volume Management file system rooted at root_dir. The default location for root-dir is /vol, but this can be overridden using
the -d option of vold (see vold(1M)). This file system is maintained by the Volume Management daemon, vold, and will be considered to be
/vol for this description.
Media can be accessed in a logical manner (no association with a particular piece of hardware), or a physical manner (associated with a
particular piece of hardware).
Logical names for media are referred to through /vol/dsk and /vol/rdsk. /vol/dsk provides block access to random access devices. /vol/rdsk
provides character access to random access devices.
The /vol/rdsk and /vol/dsk directories are mirrors of one another. Any change to one is reflected in the other immediately. The dev_t for a
volume will be the same for both the block and character device.
The default permissions for /vol are mode=0555, owner=root, group=sys. The default permissions for /vol/dsk and /vol/rdsk are mode=01777,
owner=root, group=sys.
Physical references to media are obtained through /vol/dev. This hierarchy reflects the structure of the /dev name space. The default per-
missions for all directories in the /vol/dev hierarchy are mode=0555, owner=root, group=sys.
mkdir(2), rmdir(2), unlink(2) (rm), symlink(2) (ln -s), link(2) (ln), and rename(2) (mv) are supported, subject to normal file and direc-
tory permissions.
The following system calls are not supported in the /vol filesystem: creat(2), only when creating a file, and mknod(2).
If the media does not contain file systems that can be automatically mounted by rmmount(1M), users can gain access to the media through the
following /vol locations:
+-----------------------------------+------------------------------------+
| Location | State of Media |
+-----------------------------------+------------------------------------+
|/vol/dev/diskette0/unnamed_floppy | formatted unnamed floppy-block |
| | device access |
+-----------------------------------+------------------------------------+
|/vol/dev/rdiskette0/unnamed_floppy | formatted unnamed floppy-raw |
| | device access |
+-----------------------------------+------------------------------------+
|/vol/dev/diskette0/unlabeled | unlabeled floppy-block device |
| | access |
+-----------------------------------+------------------------------------+
|/vol/dev/rdiskette0/unlabeled | unlabeled floppy-raw device access |
+-----------------------------------+------------------------------------+
|/vol/dev/dsk/c0t6/unnamed_cdrom | CD-ROM-block device access |
+-----------------------------------+------------------------------------+
|/vol/dev/rdsk/c0t6/unnamed_cdrom | CD-ROM-raw device access |
+-----------------------------------+------------------------------------+
For more information on the location of CD-ROM and floppy media, see System Administration Guide: Basic Administration or rmmount(1M).
Partitions
Some media support the concept of a partition. If the label identifies partitions on the media, the name of the media becomes a directory
with partitions under it. Only valid partitions are represented. Partitions cannot be moved out of a directory.
For example, if disk volume 'foo' has three valid partitions, 0, 2, and 5, then:
/vol/dsk/foo/s0
/vol/dsk/foo/s2
/vol/dsk/foo/s5
for block access and
/vol/rdsk/foo/s0
/vol/rdsk/foo/s2
/vol/rdsk/foo/s5
for character access.
If a volume is relabeled to reflect different partitions, the name space changes to reflect the new partition layout.
A format program can check to see if there are others with the volume open and not allow the format to occur if it is. Volume Management,
however, does not explicitly prevent the rewriting of a label while others have the volume open. If a partition of a volume is open, and
the volume is relabeled to remove that partition, it will appear exactly as if the volume were missing. A notify event will be generated
and the user may cancel the operation with volcancel(1), if desired.
SEE ALSO volcancel(1), volcheck(1), volmissing(1)rmmount(1M), vold(1M), rmmount.conf(4), vold.conf(4)
System Administration Guide: Basic Administration
SunOS 5.10 8 Feb 1995 volfs(7FS)