[csw-users] newbie solaris issues

[Mark Round]

Hi,

Yup, your assumption would seem correct. As Blastwave software lives in 
/opt/csw, unless this is split off from your / filesystem it will 
quickly fill up. You could always re-install the machine from scratch 
and leave more room for /opt/csw next time, but there's a way around 
this given your current situation.

You appear to have plenty of space in /export/home, so you could always 
relocate /opt/csw there, and then loopback mount it. You'd need to do 
this instead of symlinking it, as many packages expect /opt/csw to be a 
directory. Here's roughly how you'd go about this - tailor this for 
your own situation etc....

As root, ensure that no users or processes on the system are using 
anything in /opt/csw. Booting into single user mode is probably the 
safest way to do this. Mount /export/home if it isn't already mounted. 
Then :

# mv /opt/csw /export/home/csw (or wherever you want it to go)

Then create the loopback mount :

# mkdir /opt/csw
# mount -F lofs /export/home/csw /opt/csw

You then should be able to access everything through /opt/csw as usual, 
even though it really lives in /export/home/csw. Assuming this all 
works fine, you'd then want to update /etc/vfstab with those details :

/export/home/csw - /opt/csw lofs - yes -

You may want to try doing this with some test directory first, instead 
of /opt/csw so you're happy with the procedure. Hope this helps!

-Mark
mark at blastwave.org


On 22 Feb 2005, at 05:31, ashokpappu wrote:

> hi every one
>
> I tried to install kde and gnome as my desktop environments and I 
> believe i filled up /
> please advise
> # df -h
> Filesystem             size   used  avail capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/dsk/c0d1s0        3.0G   2.8G   100M    97%    /
> /devices                 0K     0K     0K     0%    /devices
> ctfs                     0K     0K     0K     0%    /system/contract
> proc                     0K     0K     0K     0%    /proc
> mnttab                   0K     0K     0K     0%    /etc/mnttab
> swap                   743M   332K   743M     1%    /etc/svc/volatile
> objfs                    0K     0K     0K     0%    /system/object
> fd                       0K     0K     0K     0%    /dev/fd
> swap                   743M    28K   743M     1%    /var/run
> swap                   743M   488K   743M     1%    /tmp
> /dev/dsk/c0d1s7         25G    30M    25G     1%    /export/home
> /usr/lib/libc/libc_hwcap1.so.1
>                      3.0G   2.8G   100M    97%    /lib/libc.so.1
> Thanks
> Ashok Pappu
>
>
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