04-13-2003
Help with installing/partioning/Sol8
I have search the archives with no luck. Looking for help with my specific system.
I have an SUN ULTRA 2 with dual 4.3GB HD's. I installed Solaris 8 with default settings (auto configure)and 2nd drive was partioned /export/home/extra as the only mount(4.3 G's).
I then reinstalled the OS (for practice) using only 1 (4.3 G) drive and have the following partitions:
# df -k
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 90991 59434 22458 73% /
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s6 699775 527988 115805 83% /usr
/proc 0 0 0 0% /proc
fd 0 0 0 0% /dev/fd
mnttab 0 0 0 0% /etc/mnttab
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s3 33607 11542 18705 39% /var
swap 689200 16 689184 1% /var/run
swap 689200 16 689184 1% /tmp
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s5 24919 2691 19737 12% /opt
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1 378055 245053 95197 73% /usr/openwin
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7 2524591 442915 2031185 18% /export/home
Upon adding a cluster patch, (or addtional software), I was told I did not have enough room(/var/sadm/ for installation (cluster was installed with -nosave option later - sucessfully).
Basically, I want to install Sol 8 again using BOTH 4.3G drives, but have no clue on how much space to distribute to each mount/partition(Taking into account the size of both drives).
**This is a non-production box and any advice on how it should be set up so I can continue practicing without reinstalling would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS
mount_pcfs
mount_pcfs(1M) System Administration Commands mount_pcfs(1M)
NAME
mount_pcfs - mount pcfs file systems
SYNOPSIS
mount -F pcfs [generic_options] [-o FSType-specific_options] special | mount_point
mount -F pcfs [generic_options] [-o FSType-specific_options] special mount_point
DESCRIPTION
mount attaches an MS-DOS file system (pcfs) to the file system hierarchy at the mount_point, which is the pathname of a directory. If
mount_point has any contents prior to the mount operation, these are hidden until the file system is unmounted.
If mount is invoked with special or mount_point as the only arguments, mount will search /etc/vfstab to fill in the missing arguments,
including the FSType-specific_options; see mount(1M) for more details.
The special argument can be one of two special device file types:
o A floppy disk, such as /dev/diskette0 or /dev/diskette1.
o A DOS logical drive on a hard disk expressed as device-name:logical-drive , where device-name specifies the special block device-file
for the whole disk and logical-drive is either a drive letter (c through z) or a drive number (1 through 24). Examples are
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0p0:c and /dev/dsk/c0t0d0p0:1.
The special device file type must have a formatted MS-DOS file system with either a 12-bit, 16-bit, or 32-bit File Allocation Table.
OPTIONS
generic_options
See mount(1M) for the list of supported options.
-o
Specify pcfs file system specific options. The following options are supported:
foldcase|nofoldcase
Force uppercase characters in filenames to lowercase when reading them from the filesystem. This is for compatibility with the pre-
vious behavior of pcfs. The default is nofoldcase.
FILES
/etc/mnttab table of mounted file systems
/etc/vfstab list of default parameters for each file system
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWesu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
mount(1M), mountall(1M), mount(2), mnttab(4), vfstab(4), attributes(5), pcfs(7FS)
NOTES
If the directory on which a file system is to be mounted is a symbolic link, the file system is mounted on the directory to which the sym-
bolic link refers, rather than on top of the symbolic link itself.
SunOS 5.10 24 Nov 2003 mount_pcfs(1M)