On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Martin Paul <martin.p...@univie.ac.at> wrote: > Am 23.01.2013 16:52, schrieb Stevenson, Bradley (NE): > >> Great! Does anyone know if the script will do disk space checking so it >> knows >> How much disk space it needs to install the patches. Or does anyone have a >> Script to do this ? > > > PCA doesn't do space checking. It's not that I wouldn't have thought about > adding it, but I never found a reliable method to compute the required > space, especially without extracting all patches before starting > installation (like the cluster does). > > With patchadd using temporary space (/tmp, /var/run), making (multiple) > backup copies of replaced files it's hard to find a reliable and provable > method to compute required space. > > The good thing is that patchadd (which PCA uses for the actual patch > installation) usually deals fine with interrupted patch installations, not > leaving any partly installed patches.
It's always amazing to me all the consternation about working around space issues when patching with Solaris 10 (or even 9 since I think that's supported). Considering live upgrade can be used to reorganize boot disks space utilization issues (especially in the case of not using ZFS)
