SUMMARY2: Increase root filesystem space?

From: Jonathan Williams (jonathw_at_shubertorg.com)
Date: 04/30/03

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    Well. Just in case you were wondering, I have found the solution to my
    installupdate problem. I came into work this morning to find a wonderful email
    from Maria Gilliland. This is what she said:

    "Don't make root bigger. I am 99% sure your problem is inodes.

    The "df -i" command will show you have no free inodes in some file systems.
    This will be as a result of running quotacheck. It's buggy and screws up the
    file system info. A reboot will fix it. A patch is available from hp."

    And sure enough. I did a df -i, and the root filesystem had 0 free inodes. I
    rebooted the system, and it went back up to something like 600,000 free inodes.
    I tried the installupdate again, and it is running fine. I guess I should let
    the HP tech support guy know that HP has a patch for this problem. ;)

    Thanks again Maria. =)

    Jonathan Williams
    Unix Systems Administrator
    The Shubert Organization, Inc.

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Jonathan Williams" <jonathw@shubertorg.com>
    To: "tru64-unix-managers" <tru64-unix-managers@ornl.gov>
    Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 5:45 PM
    Subject: SUMMARY: Increase root filesystem space?

    > 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@shubertorg.com>
    > To: "tru64-unix-managers" <tru64-unix-managers@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.
    > >
    > >
    >
    >

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