Ok, I believe I've received enough replies to warrant a summary. It's pretty
straight forward. While it is true that you cannot use any of the AdvFS
utilities to add space to the root filesystem like a normal filesystem there are
ways around this. Basically, you backup the existing disk--get a larger
disk--partition it as you would like--create the domains and filesystems and
swapspace--mount them--restore everything to the new disk--and then boot off of
this new disk. I would be more detailed here, but several people have pointed
out that there are articles on how to do this over at
http://www.tru64.org/ .
Also several people have mentioned that this might not help the installupdate
problem, because if it is miscalculating the space as it stands (or not
calculating it at all), then it really wouldn't matter how much space you have
free. So I think I'll wait to hear back from HP guy and make a decision from
there. Thanks to all for the fast replies (Steve, Dr. Tom, Jenny, Robert, Alan,
Paul, and Pat)
Jonathan Williams
Unix Systems Administrator
The Shubert Organization, Inc.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan Williams" <jonathw_at_shubertorg.com>
To: "tru64-unix-managers" <tru64-unix-managers_at_ornl.gov>
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 5:01 PM
Subject: Increase root filesystem space?
> Is it possible to increase the size of the root partition? I didn't think
there
> was any way to do this after the OS is installed. Let me explain:
> I am having a problem upgrading my ES40 from 5.1a to 5.1b. Basically the part
> of the installupdate where it checks for appropriate filesystem space is a
> little screwey as you can see:
>
> "If software subsets are removed, the update install will need to be
> continued so that the Total Needed value can be updated to reflect
> the removal of software that was previously installed.
>
> Free Space (Mbytes)
> -------------------
> Total Needed
> Total Available
>
>
> 1) Remove Core, Crash, and Extra Kernel Files
> 2) Remove Unprotected Customized Files (.PreUPD)
> 3) Remove Software Subsets
> 4) Continue Update Installation
> 5) Exit Update Installation"
>
> Notice the parts where it says Total needed and Total available are blank. I
> put a call into HP, and the tech guy checked our space and he says it seems
like
> more than enough space, so he is thinking it is something with the
installupdate
> script itself. While he is checking out the details of the script, he
suggested
> that I try increasing the size of my root partition to 512MB (from its current
> 256MB) and try the install again. So, I thought I was always told that you
> cannot increase the size of the root partition, but this HP tech seems to
think
> otherwise. So if it is possible, does anyone know how I would go about doing
> this? Or has anyone else had a similar experience with the 5.1b
installupdate?
> TIA Oh, and just FYI, here is a df of my current system:
>
> Filesystem 512-blocks Used Available Capacity
Mounted
> on
> root_domain#root 524288 183612 326256 37% /
> usr_domain#usr 5671696 1628662 3963456 30% /usr
> usr_domain#var 5671696 41458 3963456 2% /var
>
>
> Jonathan Williams
> Unix Systems Administrator
> The Shubert Organization, Inc.
>
>
Received on Tue Apr 29 2003 - 21:48:52 NZST