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# 8  
Old 11-08-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by polavan
Thank you Bartus11,Foorsa

From my underlying disk c1t0d0

I need to create the following filesystems.

9GB for /
2GB for swap
1.5GB for /tmp
1GB for /export/home
20GB for /u02

Can this be done during the installation itself? If so, In the following link , at "Screen 29"

ORACLE - DBA Tips Corner

What should i choose ?

Should i allocate the entire disk space to 'Solaris' partion On "Customize fdisk partitions' screen at first ?
Yes during instillation that would be easier just follow the disk layout screen during installation I have attached some screen shot that illustrates the steps ,Otherwise if your Solaris storage management skills is good you can grow your UFS file system on a fully installed OS but you need to repartition your disk layout
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# 9  
Old 11-08-2011
Thank you foorsa.Thanks everyone.

I think i found the cause of the "issue" with the help from you guys.

On the screen 'Customize fdisk partitions' (the 3rd screenshot above)
i allocated only 10,000mb to 'Solaris' partition thinking that the rest of 25 gb can be used later to create a new slice.

I shouldn't have done this . Right?
# 10  
Old 11-08-2011
Right. Solaris fdisk partition is treated by Solaris as whole disk, so if you want to have 35GB disk in Solaris (that you can later divide into slices), then you need to create 35 Solaris fdisk partition.
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# 11  
Old 11-08-2011
it is possible to change size of last slice after re-labeling the drive.
ufs filesystem can 'grow', but to shrink it you'd need to backup+restore.
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# 12  
Old 11-11-2011
yes ferrozo said the right thing.......you have only 9.75 gb complete space in solaris ...u have to re partition ur disk again
# 13  
Old 11-11-2011
@polavan: can you tell what is the full size of your hard disk and not just its Solaris partition which is 9.75 GB ?

This can be shown with
Code:
iostat -En | sed -n '/c1t0d0/,$p' | head -5

Show us also its current fdisk partitioning:
Code:
echo 6 | fdisk /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0p0 | sed -n '/Total/,/SELECT/p'

# 14  
Old 11-11-2011
Here you go
Code:
# iostat -En | sed -n '/c1t0d0/,$p' | head -5
c1t0d0           Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: VMware,  Product: VMware Virtual S Revision: 1.0  Serial No:
Size: 37.58GB <37580963328 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 4 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
#
#
#
# echo 6 | fdisk /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0p0 | sed -n '/Total/,/SELECT/p'
             Total disk size is 4568 cylinders
             Cylinder size is 16065 (512 byte) blocks

                                               Cylinders
      Partition   Status    Type          Start   End   Length    %
      =========   ======    ============  =====   ===   ======   ===
          1       Active    Solaris2          1  1275    1275     28





Here is the output of df (if it is useful)
Code:
# df -h
Filesystem             size   used  avail capacity  Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0      8.6G   4.2G   4.4G    49%    /
/devices                 0K     0K     0K     0%    /devices
ctfs                     0K     0K     0K     0%    /system/contract
proc                     0K     0K     0K     0%    /proc
mnttab                   0K     0K     0K     0%    /etc/mnttab
swap                   1.7G  1004K   1.7G     1%    /etc/svc/volatile
objfs                    0K     0K     0K     0%    /system/object
sharefs                  0K     0K     0K     0%    /etc/dfs/sharetab
/usr/lib/libc/libc_hwcap1.so.1
                       8.6G   4.2G   4.4G    49%    /lib/libc.so.1
fd                       0K     0K     0K     0%    /dev/fd
swap                   1.7G   144K   1.7G     1%    /tmp
swap                   1.7G    36K   1.7G     1%    /var/run
/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s7      464M   1.0M   417M     1%    /export/home
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