Wednesday June 20, 2007
Upgrading to SXDE 5/07
SXDE 5/07 has been released and is available for download from the SDN site. This release includes many new features such as DHCPv6 Client, Network Auto-Configuration Daemon(nwamd), SendMail, x86:Wireless WPA supplicant among others. Read the SXDE What's new document for a complete list.
I am now upgrading my laptop from the older b63 version to 5/07. Although I have a 30 GB partition for the Solaris OS of which only 10GB is used up , the installer is complaining that "disk space reallocation is required". A solaris engineer pointed out that resizing the disk using Gparted or any other such utility is not the way to go, as gparted cannot be used to expand solaris file systems (slices) , gparted deals with fdisk partitions.
Here's the output of the disk partitioning and maintenance utility, that is, the format command.
# format
Searching for disks...done
AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
0. c0d0 <DEFAULT cyl 5211 alt 2 hd 255 sec 63>
/pci@0,0/pci-ide@1f,2/ide@0/cmdk@0,0
Specify disk (enter its number): 0
selecting c0d0
Controller working list found
[disk formatted, defect list found]
Warning: Current Disk has mounted partitions.
/dev/dsk/c0d0s0 is currently mounted on /. Please see umount(1M).
/dev/dsk/c0d0s1 is currently used by swap. Please see swap(1M).
/dev/dsk/c0d0s7 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
fdisk - run the fdisk program
repair - repair a defective sector
show - translate a disk address
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
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: 5211 + 2 (reserved cylinders)
Part Tag Flag Cylinders Size Blocks
0 root wm 69 - 1084 7.78GB (1016/0/0) 16322040
1 swap wu 3 - 68 517.72MB (66/0/0) 1060290
2 backup wm 0 - 5210
39.92GB (5211/0/0) 83714715
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 1085 - 5210 31.61GB (4126/0/0) 66284190
8 boot wu 0 - 0 7.84MB (1/0/0) 16065
9 alternates wu 1 - 2 15.69MB (2/0/0) 32130
partition>
Exiting the installer, I checked the /tmp/upgrade_space_required file.
# vi /tmp/upgrade_space_required
Mount Point Slice Current Size(in Kilobyte blocks) Min suggested(in Kilobyte blocks)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/ /dev/dsk/c0d0s0 8161020 8256360
/export/home /dev/dsk/c0d0s7 33142095 866656
It is clear from the above table that there isn't enough disk space for the installer to perform the upgrade.
Stay tuned for updates on this.
Posted at 04:06PM Jun 20, 2007 by Jyothi Srinath in Sun | Comments[3]
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