Casper.Dik at Sun.COM writes: > >My ABEs are rarely more than 5GB -- and that's being generous, as I > >expect the OS to grow quite a bit over time. > > All systems I have use 10GB because that's the minimum I found > upgrades to work in; I am just allowing for some future growth.
I regularly use less than 5GB for my ABEs on systems with SUNWCall installed. I suspect you've got some trash on your root partition -- core and system dumps or huge log files, perhaps? > I've had upgrades fail and require considerable cleanup with 10GB > root partitions. So I consider 15GB "ample, but not excessive" > and 10GB "the absolute minimum". Strange. That experience seems extreme to me. Have you filed a bug? > >Minus, of course, the miniroot construction, testing, and the support > >to make sure that it works from release to release. > > But we must do the miniroot construction and testing anyway. Yes, but only for initial install. Unfortunately, this is another point of bad design: initial install and upgrade are very different in operation. > (And as of yet I have not dared throwing away the partition which contains > the grub menu even though it seems that ludelete would allow it; does > that work?) Sure. ludelete moves it to another slice. > Perhaps we can have a poll on OpenSolaris, see which percentage of installs > are liveupgradable. I don't think that'll actually answer the question as it runs into a different problem: the default install of the system doesn't support LU. That's a bug. Better questions would be: - Can you use Live Upgrade? - If not, then what specific issues are blocking you from using it? > My guess is that we'll do away with at least 80% of free testing we get > from Solaris Express/Solaris Express Community Edition. And I fear that > that is an optimistic guess. I have no way of knowing. At least for myself, I stopped doing regular upgrade years ago because it's just too painful and life- threatening. (For what it's worth, I'm not actually part of the Install group.) > I can live with "unsupported" because inter express upgrades are > unsupported now anyway. But just as now "unsupported, while accepting > and fixing reported bugs". Or perhaps community supported. I think the motivation may be to simplify: by removing bits that are no longer needed. -- James Carlson, KISS Network <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
