UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Actually I assume that he showed us a subset of his mount pointsin that df output. We need to clarify what these partitions are used for. Regardless, there is some free space that is not is use! I have resorted the layout into clylinder order.

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  1       swap    wu       0 -  1040      512.37MB    (1041/0/0)   1049328
  5        var    wm    3935 -  4137       99.91MB    (203/0/0)     204624
  7       home    wm    4138 -  5177      511.88MB    (1040/0/0)   1048320
  4        usr    wm    5178 -  7257     1023.75MB    (2080/0/0)   2096640
  3 unassigned    wm    7258 -  9337     1023.75MB    (2080/0/0)   2096640
  6 unassigned    wm    9338 - 13498        2.00GB    (4161/0/0)   4194288
  0       root    wm   13499 - 17659        2.00GB    (4161/0/0)   4194288

What a mess
All of the partition table entries are used but not all of the disk was used. And the free space is between swap and var.

jvinn, you could reload your os from scratch. But there is a one other possibility. The free space could be added to /var. Your /var is way too small so this might not be a bad idea. I've never done it, but it would go like this...

1.) Come up in single user mode and mount and mount all filesystems.
2.) Copy all of /var into /stg
3.) Unmount /var
4.) Use format to change the partition table so /var is 1041 - 4137
5.) newfs /var
6.) Mount /var
7.) Copy /stg/var back into /var
8.) Reboot

Bear in mind that I've never tried this but it looks like it should work. Have a complete backup before you try this. But if you try it and it works, do post back and let us know.

Perderabo - it will work - I've done it before booting into single user from the cd.

That's what I realized...(about the mess)...when I started playing with this machine. I'll do as you recommend, tonite, afterhours.. This system has been inherited from different team. Will post my results,
thanks a lot gents,
JV