partition of sun ultra 10 with solaris 8

[gabjones]

Hi,

I have an ultra 10 with 2 seperate disks of size 8692MB(8.6Gig). I want to install solaris 8 on this machine with a 3rd party monitoring tool called remstats. The remstats when installed requires /var to be as large as possible because it uses and fills up alot of space in /var/remstats when installed.
Is it possible to have just /var on one disk of 8692Mb. I tried this but my machine wouldnt boot up. But when i did an auto install with solaris 8 everything went fine but /var was to small.

I will like advise on how to partition and install solaris 8 and keeping and having /var as large as possible when partitioning.

Any help will be appreciated.

regards,
gab

 

[xkjdhdg]

You use cp -R and copy thef /var to where your large partition is on your other disk.
Then rm var and make a symbolic link to the real /var ln -s source-file target.


Good luck