Losing space from Solaris2.4 to Solaris2.5.1?

Losing space from Solaris2.4 to Solaris2.5.1?

Post by Kareem Kazk » Wed, 06 Aug 1997 04:00:00



I recently upgraded a machine from Solaris 2.4 to Solaris 2.5.1, and ran into
a bit of weirdity.  I copied the user's home directory (the only home directory
on the machine) from /export/home (which had its own partition) to an
NFS-mounted drive.  When I installed 2.5.1, I did an Initial installation,
and
increased the size of the /export/home partition.  When I copied the user's
home directory back, I didn't get any error messages, yet when I did a "df -k"
on the 2.5.1 partitioning, I find that /export/home is now 100% full.  Is
Solaris 2.5.1 more inefficient than 2.4 in diskspace usage?  Has anybody else
encountered such a phenomenon?

Kareem Kazkaz

 
 
 

Losing space from Solaris2.4 to Solaris2.5.1?

Post by Andrew Gabri » Thu, 07 Aug 1997 04:00:00




Quote:>I recently upgraded a machine from Solaris 2.4 to Solaris 2.5.1, and ran into
>a bit of weirdity.  I copied the user's home directory (the only home directory
>on the machine) from /export/home (which had its own partition) to an
>NFS-mounted drive.  When I installed 2.5.1, I did an Initial installation,
>and
>increased the size of the /export/home partition.  When I copied the user's
>home directory back, I didn't get any error messages, yet when I did a "df -k"
>on the 2.5.1 partitioning, I find that /export/home is now 100% full.  Is
>Solaris 2.5.1 more inefficient than 2.4 in diskspace usage?  Has anybody else
>encountered such a phenomenon?

Unless you copied with something which preserves sparse files (e.g.
core dumps) such as ufsdump, your sparse files are probably no
longer sparse and are occupying loads of disk space.

Other possibilities are different newfs parameters, e.g. many more
inodes leaving less space for file contents.

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