Ran out of space on /

[jd99]

Guys, I am a newbie so please be patient. I need to add space to my root partition. I am running solaris 7 for intel. I have created a partition with fdisk utility. It shows I have two now, the active one, and the additional one which I just created as another Solaris type partition. I have 4 slices withing the active partition, but I would like to take some of that available space on that newly created partion, and add it to root. Can you guys please help?

 

[cfsalmeida]

The easy way is to install (if not yet), SDS (Solstice Disk Suit), and configure a "concat", just add a new slice partition to the slice you have now the root filesystem.

Hope it helps,

Regards,

Carlos Almeida,

 

[teser]

How would you add space to a full root partition if you did not have the Solstice Disk Suit? Would you have to reconfigure the OS and take space away from one file for another?

 

[KenCunningham]

A word of caution. I've expanded the root partition (using DiskSuite - which is free BTW) in the past, but it required a growfs and a reboot to take effect, and some nailbiting during the reboot ensued! An additional consideration is whether your root filesystem is mirrored - in which case be addtionally careful to make sure both mirrors are exactly the same size on reboot.

 

[lfoata]

Depending on what you have under /, you maybe can move /usr or /var or /export to another file system if they are located directly under / and create a symbolic link to it. That should free some space. Normally / does not need much space unless you have other system directories in it.
Else if you do not have volume manager or disk suite or another utility, you will have to backup, reinstall, restore.