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Hi Sun Gurus!

I just got a used Sparcstation 10 with Solaris 2.7
pre installed I dont have a SCSI CD Rom or The Solaris 7 CDs
so reinstall is not an option.

Everything seems to be working fine but the partition scheme is
lousy. As you can see in the screen below I have little  room left in /usr
and / file systems to install anything

Is there a utility for solaris that allows partition resizing on the
fly like Partition Magic or Fips? Are there any free utilities out there?

This is my partition setup currently:

#df -k

Filesystem             kbytes           used         avail
capacity    Mounted on
===========================================================
/proc                        0                0                0
0%        /proc
/dev/dsk/c0t3d0s0     85564        58355         18653         76%       /
/dev/dsk/c0t3d0s6     291415      189152       7312  2        73%      /usr
fd                             0                0                0
0%        /dev/fd
/dev/dsk/c0t3d0s7     3607082     5932          3565080      1%
/export/home
swap                        215516       268            215248        1%
/tmp

TIA
Dave

Quote:

> Hi Sun Gurus!

> I just got a used Sparcstation 10 with Solaris 2.7
> pre installed I dont have a SCSI CD Rom or The Solaris 7 CDs
> so reinstall is not an option.

> Everything seems to be working fine but the partition scheme is
> lousy. As you can see in the screen below I have little  room left in
/usr
> and / file systems to install anything

> Is there a utility for solaris that allows partition resizing on the
> fly like Partition Magic or Fips? Are there any free utilities out
there?

> This is my partition setup currently:

> #df -k

> Filesystem             kbytes           used         avail
> capacity    Mounted on
> ===========================================================
> /proc                        0                0                0
> 0%        /proc
> /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s0     85564        58355         18653         76%
   /
> /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s6     291415      189152       7312  2        73%
 /usr
> fd                             0                0                0
> 0%        /dev/fd
> /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s7     3607082     5932          3565080      1%
> /export/home
> swap                        215516       268            215248
1%
> /tmp

> TIA
> Dave

If you need to install stuff in /opt, that can be a little less obvious,
but not that tricky since pkgadd (which is what usually wants to install
in /opt) can handle installing into pathnames that involve symbolic
links.  So, you can create /export/home/opt or something similar, create
directories for things that need to be installed there, and make symbolic
links to them from /opt.

Also, if you really want, you can move /opt to a newly-created filesystem
by splitting your /export/home into two parts.

Hope that helps.

  - Logan

Quote:

> Hi Sun Gurus!

> I just got a used Sparcstation 10 with Solaris 2.7
> pre installed I dont have a SCSI CD Rom or The Solaris 7 CDs
> so reinstall is not an option.

> Everything seems to be working fine but the partition scheme is
> lousy. As you can see in the screen below I have little  room left in /usr
> and / file systems to install anything

> Is there a utility for solaris that allows partition resizing on the
> fly like Partition Magic or Fips? Are there any free utilities out there?

> This is my partition setup currently:

> #df -k

> Filesystem             kbytes           used         avail
> capacity    Mounted on
> ===========================================================
> /proc                        0                0                0
> 0%        /proc
> /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s0     85564        58355         18653         76%       /
> /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s6     291415      189152       7312  2        73%
/usr
> fd                             0                0                0
> 0%        /dev/fd
> /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s7     3607082     5932          3565080      1%
> /export/home
> swap                        215516       268            215248        1%
> /tmp

> TIA
> Dave

As I've highlighted to indicate, the original poster said he had a
SPARCstation 10, so I doubt Partition Magic is going to be relevant.

Furthermore, unless they've updated Partition Magic to understand
Solaris slices on x86 systems, I doubt it would help even then.
Solaris slices are sub-partitions, i.e. they are smaller divisions of
the normal DOS style partitions.

  - Logan