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Re: 20000913: solaris 8 at stc (cont.)

Alan,

I forgot to address your SunPCI question on the last message.  Although
I have no direct experience with SunPCI cards, installing cards is
usually pretty quick and easy.  Many systems have cases that are hard to
open and make sure you are grounded to computer to prevent static
electicity damage to the card.  I'll have to look at the documentation
on the filesystem requirements though -- I don't know if they live
inside the Unix filesystem ore require their own.

On Sep 21,  4:17pm, alan anderson wrote:
> Subject: Re: 20000913: solaris 8 at stc (cont.)
> At 09:39 AM 09/21/2000 -0600, you wrote:
>
> ...
> First of all, we have ordered a CD copy of Solaris 8, so we will have a
> means of doing our own install to change this.  I assume in this case
> we would choose something like an 'initial install' option which would
> clean the whole disk and then allow us to specify partitions and sizes.

It might be that invasive, but hopefully not.

> As to what we would like, my only experience is with Solaris for intel
> version 7 when we installed that on our pcs.  In that case, upc support
> suggested we put the entire disk (except for swap) in the root file system.

This layout works well on systems that don't require data storage.

> Most of these terminals  (4 or 5) will be used the same way, i.e. they
> will be our MCIDAS terminals, and except for a netscape browser, not
> much else is planned for them.
> So, for these, should we put all or nearly all into root ?

Yes.

> On a couple of terminals, we will want to run some other applications
> such as GEMPACK and perhaps some model packages.
> I would like your suggestions as to partitioning on these.

I'd still do the same (one large partition) unless you will be storing data.

>    1. I will look at my docs. to see about a GUI for doing some of
>       this.  From your comment, I assume I can reallocate without
>       reformatting the entire disk.   Also, could you describe your
>       suggestion for a file system setup.

Yes, one can easily re-allocate unused disk space using the "format"
command (it does a lot of things other than formatting).  The easiest
way to reallocate without erasing what's been installed already is to
copy the current root filesystem into /spare since it has more room.
that would then leave the smaller partition unused (or possibly for
a SunPCI filesystem?)

>    2. Also, what is the 'fallback plan'

The fallback to just to move some of the stuff currently in / to /space
to relieve the congestion.  You would have to be careful in the future
to watch where software was being installed to keep root from filling
up again.

>    3. What about the filesystems that are listed, but show no space?
>
>       for example, /proc,  fd  and mnttab are all listed as filesystems,
>       but show no space allocated and no space used.
>       I am curious as to how they can exist without any apparent size.

These are not really filesystems, but rather entry points into system
process tables, ...  You can ignore these when you layout filesystems.

mike