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From: Maarten Deen on 19 Apr 2008 07:23
I'm in the process of installing Solaris 9 x86 for a little webserver and
it tells me the minimum / partition size is 1495 MB and doesn't allow me to
enter anything less than that.
After installing I see that the / partition is filled with 45MB:
# uname -a
SunOS optisun 5.9 Generic_118559-11 i86pc i386 i86pc
# df -k
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c0d0s0 1482750 45254 1378186 4% /
/dev/dsk/c0d0s6 5179982 1303852 3824331 26% /usr
/dev/dsk/c0d0p0:boot 11484 1594 9890 14% /boot
/proc 0 0 0 0% /proc
mnttab 0 0 0 0% /etc/mnttab
fd 0 0 0 0% /dev/fd
/dev/dsk/c0d0s3 534350 28309 452606 6% /var
swap 616172 20 616152 1% /var/run
swap 616152 0 616152 0% /tmp

As I'm installing on an 8GB drive, size does matter here.
How can I trick Solaris into accepting a smaller (say: 100MB) / partition?

For info: my current install of Solaris 7 is on a 9GB disk:
$ uname -a
SunOS kingdom 5.7 Generic_106541-08 sun4m sparc SUNW,SPARCstation-5
$ df -k
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/proc 0 0 0 0% /proc
/dev/dsk/c0t3d0s0 30399 17377 9983 64% /
/dev/dsk/c0t3d0s6 8358189 4386164 3888444 54% /usr
fd 0 0 0 0% /dev/fd
/dev/dsk/c0t3d0s1 62407 20086 36081 36% /var
swap 285172 1044 284128 1% /tmp

/opt sits in /usr here.

Maarten



From: Andreas F. Borchert on 19 Apr 2008 08:17
On 2008-04-19, Maarten Deen <zqrra(a)kf4nyy.ay> wrote:
> I'm in the process of installing Solaris 9 x86 for a little webserver and
> it tells me the minimum / partition size is 1495 MB and doesn't allow me to
> enter anything less than that.

Why do you want to put /usr on a separate partition?

Andreas.
From: Maarten Deen on 19 Apr 2008 08:35
comp.unix.solaris(a)expires-on-2008-04-27.usenet.andreas-borchert.de
(Andreas F. Borchert) wrote in
news:slrng0jonm.2b.comp.unix.solaris(a)usenet.andreas-borchert.de:

> On 2008-04-19, Maarten Deen <zqrra(a)kf4nyy.ay> wrote:
>> I'm in the process of installing Solaris 9 x86 for a little webserver
>> and it tells me the minimum / partition size is 1495 MB and doesn't
>> allow me to enter anything less than that.
>
> Why do you want to put /usr on a separate partition?

Because I was raised to do so. That way the root partition will not fill up
and cause problems in the system.

Maarten
From: Oscar del Rio on 19 Apr 2008 09:54
Maarten Deen wrote:
> comp.unix.solaris(a)expires-on-2008-04-27.usenet.andreas-borchert.de
> (Andreas F. Borchert) wrote in
>> Why do you want to put /usr on a separate partition?
>
> Because I was raised to do so. That way the root partition will not fill up
> and cause problems in the system.

/ and /usr are supposed to be static, no reason for them to fill up.
You might be thinking about /var

I don't remember if Solaris 9 had an Installation CD in addition to
Software CD 1 and 2. If that's so, install from CD 1 instead of the
Installation CD, you should get a more flexible installer.

Or try Solaris 10 or OpenSolaris.

From: Thommy M. on 19 Apr 2008 10:35
Maarten Deen wrote:
> I'm in the process of installing Solaris 9 x86 for a little webserver and

Any particular reason to use anything so outdated? Solaris 10 and
OpenSolaris has been around for years...

> it tells me the minimum / partition size is 1495 MB and doesn't allow me to
> enter anything less than that.
> After installing I see that the / partition is filled with 45MB:
> # uname -a
> SunOS optisun 5.9 Generic_118559-11 i86pc i386 i86pc
> # df -k
> Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
> /dev/dsk/c0d0s0 1482750 45254 1378186 4% /
> /dev/dsk/c0d0s6 5179982 1303852 3824331 26% /usr
> /dev/dsk/c0d0p0:boot 11484 1594 9890 14% /boot
> /proc 0 0 0 0% /proc
> mnttab 0 0 0 0% /etc/mnttab
> fd 0 0 0 0% /dev/fd
> /dev/dsk/c0d0s3 534350 28309 452606 6% /var
> swap 616172 20 616152 1% /var/run
> swap 616152 0 616152 0% /tmp
>
> As I'm installing on an 8GB drive, size does matter here.
> How can I trick Solaris into accepting a smaller (say: 100MB) / partition?

The Solaris way to do it is / and /usr on the same partition and
eventually /var on a separate. Just get used to it and you will have a
much nice experience with Solarais.

> For info: my current install of Solaris 7 is on a 9GB disk:
> $ uname -a
> SunOS kingdom 5.7 Generic_106541-08 sun4m sparc SUNW,SPARCstation-5
> $ df -k
> Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
> /proc 0 0 0 0% /proc
> /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s0 30399 17377 9983 64% /
> /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s6 8358189 4386164 3888444 54% /usr
> fd 0 0 0 0% /dev/fd
> /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s1 62407 20086 36081 36% /var
> swap 285172 1044 284128 1% /tmp
>
> /opt sits in /usr here.

loopback mounted or?
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