Re: 20000913: solaris 8 at stc (cont.)

Alan,

I don't think I've seen a worse disk layout come by default!  You're right
about unmounting /space, but it won't show up as unallocated, you'd have to
reallocate it yourself.  I use the format/partition subcommand to do this,
but there may be a GUI tool too (what did the documentation suggeest)?

I'd suggest a radical reallocation that would result in changing all
the partitions as they exist now.  How many machines would this need to
be done on?  If that seems unsurmountable, there is a good fallback
plan, but it wastes about 1GB of disk space?  What else to you plan
on being local to these systems (home directories, data, ...)

mike

On Sep 20,  1:47pm, alan anderson wrote:
> Subject: Re: 20000913: solaris 8 at stc (cont.)
>
> ...
> Its done Mike.  Again, the issue I am concerned about is how to reorganize
> the disk to get all the room in  /space  put someplace else, preferably
> into  the root file system.
>
> I was just about ready to start tinkering myself by first:
>
>    unmounting file system /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0   mount pt  /space
>
> This file system represents space on what Sun calls
> 'slice' 0  or partition  0  of the disk.
>
> Once it is unmounted, I can delete the file system.
>
> Then I was going to gamble that this space would show up as unallocated,
> and hence I could make it part of one of the other file systems, in this
> case  file system  /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7 (slice or partition 7) mounted at /
>
> The Sun documentation is not very clear about this last step (re-assigning
> disk space from a deleted filesystem).
>
> Well, I have not done this, and will wait for your advice.
>
> Also, we have what Sun PCI cards for a few of these machines.  Any
> quick comments on their install?  I have an install booklet, but
> have not started on it yet.  One question that comes to mind is
> whether we will need to define a separate filesystem for the PCI
> i.e. in effect dedicate some of the disk for it.  The PCI cards
> have their own RAM, 64 MB, but we have only one hard disk.