Jyothi:
The G part stuff only helps if you want to expand your Solaris partition.
In your case, within your Solaris partition, you do not have enough room
to do the upgrade.
You can send the output of format and with p and then we can tell why
you do not have enough room, i.e:
# format
Searching for disks...done
AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
0. c1t0d0 <SUN72G cyl 14087 alt 2 hd 24 sec 424>
/pci at 1f,700000/pci at 0/pci at 2/pci at 0/pci at 8/LSILogic,sas
at 1/sd at 0,0
1. c1t1d0 <SUN72G cyl 14087 alt 2 hd 24 sec 424>
/pci at 1f,700000/pci at 0/pci at 2/pci at 0/pci at 8/LSILogic,sas
at 1/sd at 1,0
Specify disk (enter its number): 0
selecting c1t0d0
[disk formatted]
Warning: Current Disk has mounted partitions.
/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0 is currently mounted on /. Please see umount(1M).
/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s1 is currently used by swap. Please see swap(1M).
/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s7 is currently mounted on /export/home. Please see
umount(1M).
FORMAT MENU:
disk - select a disk
type - select (define) a disk type
partition - select (define) a partition table
current - describe the current disk
format - format and analyze the disk
repair - repair a defective sector
label - write label to the disk
analyze - surface analysis
defect - defect list management
backup - search for backup labels
verify - read and display labels
save - save new disk/partition definitions
inquiry - show vendor, product and revision
volname - set 8-character volume name
!<cmd> - execute <cmd>, then return
quit
format> p
PARTITION MENU:
0 - change `0' partition
1 - change `1' partition
2 - change `2' partition
3 - change `3' partition
4 - change `4' partition
5 - change `5' partition
6 - change `6' partition
7 - change `7' partition
select - select a predefined table
modify - modify a predefined partition table
name - name the current table
print - display the current table
label - write partition map and label to the disk
!<cmd> - execute <cmd>, then return
quit
partition> p
Current partition table (original):
Total disk cylinders available: 14087 + 2 (reserved cylinders)
Part Tag Flag Cylinders Size Blocks
0 root wm 104 - 2116 9.77GB (2013/0/0) 20484288
1 swap wu 0 - 103 516.75MB (104/0/0) 1058304
2 backup wm 0 - 14086 68.35GB (14087/0/0) 143349312
3 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
4 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
5 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
6 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
7 home wm 2117 - 14086 58.08GB (11970/0/0) 121806720
partition>
Jyothi.Srinath at sun.com wrote:
> I have a 80 GB hard disk, with 30 GB for the Solaris partition . Of this
> only 10 GB is used up so far, so it is surprising that I get the "Disk
> space reallocation" message. It does not seem necessary to resize the
> disk, could there be any other reason for the error message?
>
> Thanks,
> Jyothi
>
> Narendra Kumar S.S wrote:
>> So, what is the total disk space that you have on this system?
>> If you have an adjacent partition with space which can be used for
>> Solaris, then you can use gparted CD to resize Solaris partition and
>> then do the upgrade.
>>
>> But, it is better to take a backup of important data before trying out
>> anything.
>>
>> -Narendra
>>
>>
>>
>> On 6/20/07, * Jyothi.Srinath at sun.com <mailto:Jyothi.Srinath at sun.com>*
>> <Jyothi.Srinath at sun.com <mailto:Jyothi.Srinath at sun.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am upgrading my Toshiba m5 from b62 to b64a(5/07). I initally
>> did not choose any backup media during the upgrade process.
>> After the "Testing upgrade profile" , I got the following error
>> message:
>>
>> "Disk space reallocation is required. Please go back and select a
>> valid backup media."
>>
>> I chose "local disk" as the backup media. I am unsure about the
>> path to specify for the backup.
>> What is the recommended path and why do I get the disk space error
>> message ?
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Jyothi
>>
>>
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>> Solaris Developers Group
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