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Operating Systems Linux samba for solaris 9 help!! Post 43221 by rhfrommn on Thursday 13th of November 2003 10:05:50 AM

11-13-2003

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Definately check your filesystem space if you let Solaris automatically choose the partition sizes. The program is terribly outdated - it is as if they havent updated it since the days of 270mb drives. I accidentally forgot to customize on a server with a 18 gb drive once and I got something ridiculous like 50 mb for /, 15 mb for /var, and the rest all piled into /export/home.

As a hint, for my 18 gb rootdisks here's what I used generally (on a server with 4gb ram, swap can be smaller if you have less ram)

/ 2048

swap 4096

/var 2048

/u01 5120 This is an app area used by the dba's to install oracle and its supporting apps, you would not need this but instead might have your own apps partition with whatever name you want.

/export/home ~3950 (the remaining space) this was also awfully big for user home directories, but I had extra space. You could easily shrink that to make more room on your apps partition.

If you don't need as much in /export/home or your apps partition, you could give the extra space to / or /var. Just remember, you don't want stuff that changes or any data on /. The root partition should be just for the operating system and application binaries, any log file type stuff should go in /var and user data in /export/home or else in partitions designated for data. You never want users or logs to be able to fill up / and crash your box. Even if you are the only user, it is good practice to keep / pretty clean so when you do back ups of your data you don't need to worry about what is mixed where. You know if you backup your data partition and /export/home you can always just reinstall the os and your apps then restore the data.

Wow, that was probably way more than you wanted to know about partitioning in Solaris. Sorry if I bored you, but hopefully some of it proves interesting and/or useful.

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install-solaris(1M)                                                                                                            install-solaris(1M)

NAME

       install-solaris - install the Solaris operating system

SYNOPSIS

       install-solaris

       install-solaris  invokes  the  Solaris  Install  program. Depending on graphical capability and available memory at the time of invocation,
       install-solaris invokes either a text-based installer or a graphical installer.

       The following minimum requirements for physical memory dictate which features are available during installation:

       For SPARC machines:

       128 MB

           Minimum physical memory for all installation types

       128 MB

           Minimum physical memory required for windowing system

       384 MB

           Minimum physical memory required for graphical-based installation

       For x86 machines:

       256 MB

           Minimum physical memory for all installation types

       256 MB

           Minimum physical memory required for windowing system

       512 MB

           Minimum physical memory required for graphical-based installation

       In some cases, even if the minimum physical memory is present, available virtual memory after system startup can limit the number  of  fea-
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       install-solaris  exists  only  on  the Solaris installation media (CD or DVD) and should be invoked only from there. Refer to the  for more
       details.

       install-solaris allows installation of the operating system onto any standalone system. install-solaris loads the software available on the
       installation media. Refer to the  for disk space requirements.

       Refer to the  for more information on the various menus and selections.

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         |      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability                 |SUNWcdrom  (Solaris instal-  |
       |                             |lation media)                |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability          |Evolving                     |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

       pkginfo(1), install(1M), pkgadd(1M), attributes(5)

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