Hi,
I am a newbie to Solaris and i installed Solaris 10 on my x86 machine.
I selected the defaults while installing the Solaris 10 and ended up allocating less space to my root directory and more to my export/home directory.Since this, i have been running into space problems on my root directory.
Is there any way i could move the extra space from export/home to the root directory.Please advise.
Thank you
138csooner
> Hi,
>
> I am a newbie to Solaris and i installed Solaris
> 10 on my x86 machine.
> selected the defaults while installing the Solaris
> 10 and ended up allocating less space to my root
> directory and more to my export/home directory.Since
> this, i have been running into space problems on my
> root directory.
Welcome to Solaris. You will now learn what the rest of us already have the same way that the rest of us did. What is that?
How to re-install Solaris while allocating more space to / than to /export/home. Choose auto layout. Let it do it's thing. Then choose to re-allocate and adjust as necessary.
alan
> Does this mean i need to re-install Solaris 10.If so,
> can you give me some tips regarding the important
> steps involved.
Last time I looked you don't NEED to do anything.
You could just leave the system alone and live with it.
You could create links all over creation and move things here and then move other things over there.
You could install another OS and never look back.
You could re-install Solaris with a different disk layout if you desire.
I would choose auto-layout, let it do it's thing, then click or tab or whatever onto customize and then adjust the file system slices to a more appropriate space management then what the installer picks by itself.
You could setup a jump start server and automate the whole process.
You get the idea here, no one's forcing you to do anything, up to you.
You might want to go to http://docs.sun.com and look at the installation docs and hunt around for the packing list to see what all those packages really do.
Now that you have an idea of how much disk space that you're short on /, you should at least double that and re-install and readjust your slices.
Solaris defaults to what it is, a multi user system capable of supporting more than one logon at a time, no matter what box that you install it onto. This isn't Windows, don't run it the same way. You will be disappointed.
alan
