Tao:
Tao Chen wrote: > > > On 6/26/06, *mary ding* <mary.ding at sun.com <mailto:mary.ding at sun.com>> > wrote: > > Tao: > > When you run into this situation upgrading from b39 to b42a, it > complained about insufficent space. We still some data: > > 1. Is this a GUI upgrade or tipline upgrade ? > > > I use text based local console install ( option 4 ). > > > 2. Are there SVM or Mirror root devices on the system ? > > > No. > > If you system does not have SVM or Mirror root devices, you > should be > able to continue the upgrade and it will give you choices to backup the > data on local disk and NFS server. > > > I don't remember being able to continue at that point, maybe I did look > hard. > > I was given choice of "re-arranging partitions", my understanding is the > install attempts to grab space from other partitions. > I tried that option, but it failed to move space for the root, even > though I "unlocked" two partitions (3,4) > My memory is very vague since it was the first time I run into this. > Upgrade is trying to do upgrade with Disk Space reallocation. It will try to do auto-layout. If it is not successful, then it will give you the option of chanaging the constraints of the partitions. If it still fails, then the option will be to customization and remove unwanted packages. This is what you did. If you have a free partition, you can try live upgrade in the future. > This is my partition/slice on the root disk (same when I upgraded): > > Part Tag Flag Cylinders Size > 0 root wm 3 - 1308 10.00GB > 1 swap wu 1309 - 1570 2.01GB > 2 backup wm 0 - 4900 37.54GB > 3 unassigned wm 1571 - 2876 10.00GB > 4 unassigned wm 2877 - 4182 10.00GB > 5 unassigned wm 4183 - 4900 5.50GB > 6 unassigned wm 0 0 > 7 unassigned wm 0 0 > 8 boot wu 0 - 0 7.84MB > 9 alternates wu 1 - 2 15.69MB > > > # df -k > Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on > /dev/dsk/c1d0s0 10331209 7825501 2402396 77% / > > > > If you do not want to backup the data, then you will need to do > customization to delete packages in order for upgrade to work. > > > Ok, so looks like I missed the backup option. I will check next time, if > I remember. > > Thanks, > Tao > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > install-discuss mailing list > install-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ Mary Ding _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ Member of Technical Staff _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ UMPK17-307 _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ Menlo Park, CA. 94043 _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ mary.ding at Eng.Sun.COM 650-786-8317 (phone) M I C R O S Y S T E M S --------------------------------------------------------------------
